饥驱叩门

饥驱叩门 in English

jī qū kòu mén
(idiom) To be driven by hunger to knock on a door and ask for food. It evokes a situation of extreme need.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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.

How it used to be written

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

  • Small seal script: 饑 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 饑 Clerical script 東漢

These are the forms of 驅, the traditional character: 驱 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.

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

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