独树一帜 獨樹一幟

独树一帜獨樹一幟 in English

dú shù yī zhì
lit. to fly one's banner on a solitary tree (idiom) / fig. to act as a loner / to stand out / to develop one's own school / to have attitude of one's own

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 独 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 独 Show the animation
Le caractère 獨 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

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

Le caractère 树 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 树 Show the animation
Le caractère 樹 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

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

Le caractère 一 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 一 Show the animation

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

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 獨, the traditional character: 独 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

These are the forms of 樹, the traditional character: 树 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Warring States script: 樹 Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦
  • Clerical script: 樹 Clerical script 東漢
  • See all 8 forms

These are the forms of 幟, the traditional character: 帜 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 幟 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 幟 Clerical script 曹魏

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

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