长虺成蛇

长虺成蛇 in English

zhǎng huǐ chéng shé
(idiom) To foster treachery until it becomes a calamity. By extension, allowing an enemy to grow stronger creates serious future trouble.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

长

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

虺

  • Small seal script: 虺 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 虺 Clerical script 東漢

成

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

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