雪窗萤火

雪窗萤火 in English

xuě chuāng yíng huǒ
(idiom) Describes someone who studies diligently and perseveres through the hardships of reading. It has the same meaning as “studying by snowlight and firefly light.”

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

Le caractère 火 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 火 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 螢, the traditional character: 萤 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Clerical script: 螢 Clerical script 西漢

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

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