刿心刳肺 劌心刳肺

刿心刳肺劌心刳肺 in English

guì xīn kū fèi
(idiom) To rack one's brains and proceed with deliberate, painstaking effort.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 心 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 心 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 劌, the traditional character: 刿 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 劌 Small seal script

  • Small seal script: 刳 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 刳 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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