穷年累岁

穷年累岁 in English

qióng nián lěi suì: (idiom) Describes a very long period continuing year after year.

Character breakdown

穷窮 qióng poor
年秊 nián grain
累纍 léi rope
岁歲, 𡻕 suì classifier for years (of age)

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 穷

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 年

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 累

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 岁

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.

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

年

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 20 forms

累

Clerical script 西漢
Clerical script 東漢
See all 3 forms

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

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