高垒深堑

高垒深堑 in English

gāo lěi shēn qiàn: (idiom) Defenses made up of high fortifications and deep moats. It describes a strongly protected military position.

Character breakdown

高 gāo high
垒壘 lěi rampart
深 shēn deep (lit. and fig.)
堑塹 qiàn (bound form) moat

Stroke order

Le caractère 高 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 高

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

Le caractère 深 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 深

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

How it used to be written

高

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

垒

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

Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
Clerical script 西漢
See all 5 forms

深

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 14 forms

堑

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

Small seal script
Clerical script

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

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