碍难遵命 礙難遵命

碍难遵命礙難遵命 in English

ài nán zūn mìng
(idiom) To find it difficult to comply with an order or request because of an impediment. The expression is a tactful way of declining someone’s request.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

  • Small seal script: 礙 Small seal script

These are the forms of 難, the traditional character: 难 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

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

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