穷寇莫追
穷寇莫追 in English
- (idiom) Do not pursue an enemy who has been driven into a corner, lest it launch a desperate counterattack and cause losses. By extension, do not push someone too far.
Stroke order
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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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
穷
These are the forms of 窮, the traditional character: 穷 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
寇
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
莫
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - See all 18 forms
追
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).