麦克阿瑟麥克阿瑟

麦克阿瑟麥克阿瑟 in English

mài kè ā sè: General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war

Character breakdown

麦麥 mài wheat
克尅 kè to be able to
阿 ā prefix used before monosyllabic names, k…
瑟 sè a type of standing harp, smaller than ko…

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 麦

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 克

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 阿

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

How it used to be written

麦

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 10 forms

克

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 24 forms

阿

Bronze script 戰國
Clerical script 東漢
See all 9 forms

瑟

Warring States script 戰國.楚
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

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

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