艰食鲜食

艰食鲜食 in English

jiān shí xiān shí: (idiom) Grain produced through human cultivation and fresh foods from birds, animals, fish, and turtles.

Character breakdown

艰艱 jiān difficult
食 shí to eat
鲜鱻 xiān fish

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 食

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 鲜

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

How it used to be written

艰

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 9 forms

食

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

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

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