猿穴坏山

猿穴坏山 in English

yuán xué huài shān
(idiom) A minor oversight can lead to a major disaster. The expression warns against seemingly insignificant causes of serious consequences.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

Le caractère 山 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 山 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 蝯, the traditional character: 猿 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 蝯 Small seal script

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

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