神骥出枥

神骥出枥 in English

shén jì chū lì: (idiom) Compares a person to an exceptional horse leaving its stable / it describes great ambition and powerful drive.

Character breakdown

神 shén god
骥驥 jì thoroughbred horse
出齣 chū to go out
枥櫪 lì type of oak

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 神

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 出

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

How it used to be written

神

Bronze script 西周中期
Clerical script 西晉
See all 15 forms

骥

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

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Small seal script

出

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

枥

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

Small seal script

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

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