足不窥户

足不窥户 in English

zú bù kuī hù
(idiom) Not to step outside one’s home at all / to live in seclusion and shut oneself off from the outside world.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

足

不

窥

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

  • Small seal script: 窺 Small seal script

户

These are the forms of 戶, the traditional character: 户 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).

See 足不窥户 in the search results

Share this page