贪蛇忘尾

贪蛇忘尾 in English

tān shé wàng wěi: (idiom) To pursue immediate benefits without considering the consequences.

Character breakdown

贪貪 tān to have a voracious desire for
蛇 shé snake
忘 wàng to forget
尾 wěi tail

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 忘

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 尾

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

How it used to be written

贪

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 5 forms

忘

Bronze script 春秋晚期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

尾

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

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

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