躬蹈矢石

躬蹈矢石 in English

gōng dǎo shǐ shí: (idiom) A commander goes personally to the front line and faces the enemy’s arrows and stones without fear of sacrificing himself.

Character breakdown

躬躳 gōng (literary) body (of a human, esp. the to…
蹈 dǎo to tread on
矢 shǐ arrow
石 shí rock

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 石

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

蹈

Small seal script
Clerical script 西晉
See all 4 forms

矢

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 13 forms

石

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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