罗雀掘鼠羅雀掘鼠

罗雀掘鼠羅雀掘鼠 in English

luó què jué shǔ: lit. to net birds and dig for rats (idiom) / fig. hard pressed for cash / on the verge of bankruptcy

Character breakdown

罗羅 luō gauze / to collect / to gather / to catc…
雀 qiāo a freckle
掘 jué to dig
鼠 shǔ (bound form) rat

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 罗

Le caractère 羅 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.

How it used to be written

罗

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
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雀

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢至魏晉
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掘

Small seal script
Clerical script 西晉

鼠

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
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Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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