登高必自卑，行远必自迩登高必自卑，行遠必自邇 in English
- (idiom) To climb high, one must start from low ground / to travel far, one must begin nearby. It refers to working in a practical, gradual, and steady manner.
Character breakdown
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.
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
登
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 25 forms
高
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
必
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
自
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
卑
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
行
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 forms
远
These are the forms of 遠, the traditional character: 远 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 23 forms
迩
These are the forms of 邇, the traditional character: 迩 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 8 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).