进退应矩

进退应矩 in English

jìn tuì yīng jǔ: (idiom) To move forward and backward in accordance with rules and proper standards. It describes orderly and disciplined conduct.

Character breakdown

进進 jìn to go forward
退 tuì to retreat
应應 yīng to agree (to do sth)
矩 jǔ carpenter's square

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

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

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 应

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.

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

退

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
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应

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

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 8 forms

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

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