计日以俟

计日以俟 in English

jì rì yǐ sì: (idiom) To count the days while waiting eagerly. It emphasizes both the closeness of the expected time and the intensity of the anticipation.

Character breakdown

计計 jì to calculate
日 rì sun
以 yǐ to use
俟竢 sì (literary) to wait for

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 计

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 日

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 以

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

How it used to be written

计

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

Warring States script 戰國.楚
Clerical script 東漢
See all 5 forms

日

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

以

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

俟

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 4 forms

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

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