七舌八嘴

七舌八嘴 in English

qī shé bā zuǐ: (idiom) Describes a situation in which many people talk at once and their voices become mixed together. It is equivalent to “seven mouths and eight tongues.”

Character breakdown

七 qī seven
舌 shé tongue
八 bā eight
嘴 zuǐ mouth

Stroke order

Le caractère 七 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 七

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

Le caractère 八 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 八

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 嘴

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

How it used to be written

七

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

舌

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script
See all 10 forms

八

Oracle bone script 商
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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