逶迤退食

逶迤退食 in English

wēi yí tuì shí: (idiom) To withdraw calmly and modestly while remaining just and incorruptible. It describes disinterested conduct in the exercise of an office.

Character breakdown

逶 wēi (literary) (of roads, rivers, mountain r…
迤 yí (literary) (of roads, rivers, mountain r…
退 tuì to retreat
食 shí to eat

Stroke order

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 食 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 食

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

How it used to be written

逶

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Small seal script
See all 4 forms

退

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

食

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

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

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