背本就末

背本就末 in English

bèi běn jiù mò: (idiom) To depart from fundamentals and pursue secondary details / to lose sight of what is primary and what is secondary.

Character breakdown

背 bèi the back of a body or object
本 běn (bound form) root
就 jiù (after a suppositional clause) in that c…
末 mò tip

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 背

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 本

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 就

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 末

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

How it used to be written

背

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 3 forms

本

Bronze script 西周中期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 9 forms

就

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

末

Bronze script 春秋晚期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 9 forms

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

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