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Mythic Mandarin

愚公移山 (yú gōng yí shān): meaning and stroke order

愚公移山 (yú gōng yí shān) means the old man moves mountains (idiom); fig. where there's a will, there's a way.

愚公移山

Simplified
愚公移山
Traditional
愚公移山 (same form)
Pinyin
yú gōng yí shān

Stroke order of 愚公移山

愚

  • yú to be stupid; to cheat or deceive
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

公

  • gōng public; collectively owned
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

移

  • yí to move; to shift
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

山

  • Shān surname Shan
  • shān mountain; hill (CL:座[zuo4]); (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 愚公移山

  1. yú gōng yí shān
    • the old man moves mountains (idiom); fig. where there's a will, there's a way

Radicals of the characters

愚
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 13 strokes · 禺 on top, 心 below
公
Radical 八 (Kangxi radical 12) · 4 strokes · 八 on top, 厶 below
移
Radical 禾 (Kangxi radical 115) · 11 strokes · 禾 on the left, 多 on the right
山
Radical 山 (Kangxi radical 46) · 3 strokes · built from 凵 and 丨

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).