倾城而出

倾城而出 in English

qīng chéng ér chū: (idiom) The entire population of a city turns out at once. By extension, it describes a very large number of people gathering or mobilizing.

Character breakdown

倾傾 qīng to overturn
城 chéng city walls
而 ér and
出齣 chū to go out

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 倾

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 城

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 而

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 出

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

How it used to be written

倾

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

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢

城

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

而

Bronze script 西周晚期
Clerical script 西晉
See all 16 forms

出

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

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

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