自投虎口

自投虎口 in English

zì tóu hǔ kǒu: (idiom) To enter a highly dangerous place or situation voluntarily, effectively courting death.

Character breakdown

自 zì (bound form) self
投 tóu to throw (sth in a specific direction: b…
虎 hǔ tiger
口 kǒu mouth

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 自

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 投

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

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 口

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

How it used to be written

自

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

投

Warring States script 戰國.秦
Clerical script 東漢
See all 5 forms

虎

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 20 forms

口

Oracle bone script 商
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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