蚍蜉戴盆

蚍蜉戴盆 in English

pí fú dài pén: (idiom) To have limited abilities while taking on an extremely demanding task. It can also describe someone acting beyond their capabilities.

Character breakdown

蜉 fú a type of large ant
戴 dài to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves …
盆 pén basin

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 戴

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

How it used to be written

蚍

Small seal script
Small seal script

蜉

Small seal script
Small seal script

戴

Small seal script
Clerical script 西晉
See all 6 forms

盆

Bronze script 春秋
Clerical script 東漢
See all 5 forms

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

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