乖唇蜜舌 in English

Character breakdown

• 乖 guāi (of a child) obedient, well-behaved
• 唇脣 chún lip
• 蜜 mì honey
• 舌 shé tongue

How it used to be written

乖

• Small seal script
• Clerical script 西漢

唇

• Small seal script

蜜

• Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
• Clerical script 曹魏
• See all 4 forms

舌

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script
• See all 10 forms

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