鸟穷则啄鳥窮則啄 in English
- (idiom) A cornered bird will peck back. It describes someone who, driven into a desperate situation, may take dangerous or reckless action.
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
鸟
These are the forms of 鳥, the traditional character: 鸟 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
穷
These are the forms of 窮, the traditional character: 穷 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
则
These are the forms of 則, the traditional character: 则 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 24 forms
啄
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Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).