凄然泪下

凄然泪下 in English

qī rán lèi xià
(idiom) To express deep sorrow, with tears falling from one's eyes.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 然 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 然 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 泪 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 泪 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 下 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 下 Show the animation

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

How it used to be written

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

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

  • Clerical script: 淚 Clerical script 東漢

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

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