狡兔死，良犬烹

狡兔死，良犬烹 in English

jiǎo tù sǐ，liáng quǎn pēng: (idiom) People who have served a ruler are discarded or killed once their task is complete.

Character breakdown

狡 jiǎo crafty
兔 tù rabbit
死 sǐ to die
良 liáng good
犬 quǎn dog
烹 pēng to boil

Stroke order

Le caractère 死 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 死

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 良 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 良

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

狡

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 7 forms

兔

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

死

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 23 forms

良

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

犬

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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