鹰犬之才

鹰犬之才 in English

yīng quǎn zhī cái
(idiom) Eagles and hounds trained by hunters to pursue and capture game / figuratively, a person capable of serving under orders and doing useful work.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

鹰

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

犬

之

才

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

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