赴汤投火 赴湯投火

赴汤投火赴湯投火 in English

fù tāng tóu huǒ
(idiom) To face boiling water and leap into blazing fire / to devote oneself completely without avoiding danger or hardship.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

Le caractère 火 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 火 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 湯, the traditional character: 汤 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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