行之惟艰 行之惟艱

行之惟艰行之惟艱 in English

xíng zhī wéi jiān
(idiom) Knowing is not difficult / putting knowledge into practice is. The expression emphasizes the gap between understanding a principle and actually applying it.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

行

之

惟

  • Bronze script: 惟 Bronze script 商代晚期或西周早期
  • Clerical script: 惟 Clerical script 東漢
  • See all 6 forms

艰

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

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

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