风行草偃

风行草偃 in English

fēng xíng cǎo yǎn
(idiom) When the wind blows, the grass bends at once. Figuratively, it refers to the influence of moral virtue, ethical teaching, or exemplary leadership on people.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

  • Warring States script: 草 Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦
  • Clerical script: 草 Clerical script 東漢
  • See all 7 forms

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

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