驷不及舌 駟不及舌
驷不及舌駟不及舌 in English
- (idiom) Once words have been spoken, they cannot be taken back. It emphasizes the irrevocable nature of what has been said.
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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
驷
These are the forms of 駟, the traditional character: 驷 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 9 forms
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
及
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
舌
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script - See all 10 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).