老虎头上搔痒

老虎头上搔痒 in English

lǎo hǔ tóu shàng sāo yǎng
(idiom) To overestimate one’s abilities and recklessly challenge someone or something powerful.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 老 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 老 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 虎 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 虎 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 头 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 头 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 上 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 上 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

老

虎

头

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

上

搔

痒

  • Chu manuscripts: 痒 Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
  • Small seal script: 痒 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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