画虎刻鹄
画虎刻鹄 in English
- (idiom) To aim too high and achieve nothing. It can also describe a good deed that fails and turns into something harmful.
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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
画
These are the forms of 畫, the traditional character: 画 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
虎
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 20 forms
刻
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
鹄
These are the forms of 鵠, the traditional character: 鹄 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 3 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).