饿虎见羊 餓虎見羊

饿虎见羊餓虎見羊 in English

è hǔ jiàn yáng
(idiom) A hungry tiger sees a lamb. It describes a swift, fierce, and greedy response to prey or an opportunity.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

饿

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

  • Small seal script: 餓 Small seal script
  • Qin bamboo slips: 餓 Qin bamboo slips

These are the forms of 見, the traditional character: 见 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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