败事有余，成事不足 in English
- (idiom) To fail not only to accomplish something, but often to make matters worse. It describes someone or something that causes more harm than help.
Stroke order
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.
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
败
These are the forms of 敗, the traditional character: 败 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
事
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
有
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
余
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 23 forms
成
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
足
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).