驷马难追 駟馬難追

驷马难追駟馬難追 in English

sì mǎ nán zhuī
(idiom) Once something has been said, it cannot be taken back / a person must keep their word.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 马 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 马 Show the animation
Le caractère 馬 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 难 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 难 Show the animation
Le caractère 難 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 追 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 追 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 駟, the traditional character: 驷 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

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

These are the forms of 難, the traditional character: 难 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).

Examples

  • 一言既出,驷马难追。

    You cannot take back what you have said.

All example sentences with 驷马难追

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