荆棘塞途 荊棘塞途

荆棘塞途荊棘塞途 in English

jīng jí sè tú
(idiom) To have thorns blocking the entire road. It metaphorically describes a difficult environment filled with obstacles.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

  • Bronze script: 棘 Bronze script 春秋晚期或戰國早期
  • Clerical script: 棘 Clerical script 東漢
  • See all 7 forms

  • Chu manuscripts: 途 Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚

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

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