笨鸟先飞 笨鳥先飛
笨鸟先飞笨鳥先飛 in English
- lit. the clumsy bird flies early (idiom) / fig. to work hard to compensate for one's limited abilities
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
笨
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Small seal script
鸟
These are the forms of 鳥, the traditional character: 鸟 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
先
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
飞
These are the forms of 飛, the traditional character: 飞 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).