见物不取，失之千里 in English
- (idiom) If one does not take something when it is available, obtaining it later becomes much more difficult. It advises people not to miss an opportunity.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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
见
These are the forms of 見, the traditional character: 见 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
物
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 11 forms
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
取
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
失
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Bronze script 商代晚期或西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
之
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 26 forms
千
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
里
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).