相鼠之刺

相鼠之刺 in English

xiàng shǔ zhī cì: (idiom) To remind people that they must know shame and observe propriety and morality.

Character breakdown

相 xiāng each other
鼠 shǔ (bound form) rat
之 zhī (possessive particle, literary equivalen…
刺 cì thorn

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 相

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 之

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 刺

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

How it used to be written

相

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 22 forms

鼠

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 10 forms

之

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 26 forms

刺

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 8 forms

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

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