八面莹澈

八面莹澈 in English

bā miàn yíng chè: (idiom) Describes someone shrewd, experienced, and perceptive in every respect. Such a person sees through things clearly.

Character breakdown

八 bā eight
面麵 miàn flour
莹瑩 yíng luster of gems
澈 chè clear (water)

Stroke order

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 面 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 面

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

How it used to be written

八

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

面

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

莹

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

Small seal script
Clerical script 孫吳
See all 3 forms

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

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