苟且

苟且 in English

gǒu qiě: perfunctory / careless / drifting along / resigned to one's fate / improper (relations) / illicit (sex)

Character breakdown

苟 gǒu (literary) if indeed
且 qiě and

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 且

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

How it used to be written

苟

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 4 forms

且

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢至魏晉
See all 21 forms

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

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