躬先士卒

躬先士卒 in English

gōng xiān shì zú: (idiom) Equivalent to “to lead the troops from the front.” It describes a leader who sets an example and goes ahead of the group.

Character breakdown

躬躳 gōng (literary) body (of a human, esp. the to…
先 xiān beforehand
士 shì member of the senior ministerial class (…
卒 zú soldier

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 先

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 士

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

How it used to be written

躬

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 15 forms

先

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

士

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

卒

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 27 forms

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

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