铅刀驽马

铅刀驽马 in English

qiān dāo nú mǎ
(idiom) Describes someone whose abilities are meager or mediocre, compared to a poor horse and an ineffective knife.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

铅

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

  • Small seal script: 鉛 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 鉛 Clerical script 東漢

刀

马

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

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

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