谋定后战

谋定后战 in English

móu dìng hòu zhàn
(idiom) When conducting a war or an operation, one should settle the strategy before taking action. The expression emphasizes preparation and prior deliberation.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These are the forms of 戰, the traditional character: 战 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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