见时知幾

见时知幾 in English

jiàn shí zhī jī
(idiom) To observe the changing circumstances and foresee the early signs of coming developments.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

Le caractère 知 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 知 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 見, the traditional character: 见 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

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

  • Warring States script: 時 Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦
  • Clerical script: 時 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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