闭门合辙

闭门合辙 in English

bì kǒu hé shé
(idiom) An equivalent of “building a carriage behind closed doors and finding that it follows the ruts when taken out.” It describes people or things that fit or harmonize with each other.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Small seal script: 轍 Small seal script

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

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