进退唯谷

进退唯谷 in English

jìn tuì wéi gǔ
(idiom) Whether one moves forward or retreats, one remains in a difficult situation. It describes being caught between two equally impossible choices.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

进

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

退

唯

  • Bronze script: 唯 Bronze script 商代晚期或西周早期
  • Clerical script: 唯 Clerical script 東漢
  • See all 14 forms

谷

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

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