知易行难 知易行難
知易行难知易行難 in English
- easy to grasp but difficult to put into practice (idiom) / easier said than done
Stroke order
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Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
知
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Bronze script 春秋 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
易
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
行
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 forms
难
These are the forms of 難, the traditional character: 难 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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知易行难。
It's one thing to make plans, but quite another to carry them out.