触而即发

触而即发 in English

chù ér jí fā: (idiom) Originally, to have an arrow nocked and the bow drawn, ready to shoot.

Character breakdown

触觸 chù to touch
而 ér and
即 jí namely
发發 fā to send out

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 触

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 而

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 即

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 发

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

How it used to be written

触

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

Warring States script 戰國.齊
Clerical script 東漢
See all 9 forms

而

Bronze script 西周晚期
Clerical script 西晉
See all 16 forms

即

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

发

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 19 forms

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

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