千刀万剁

千刀万剁 in English

qiān dāo wàn duò: (idiom) Originally referred to an ancient punishment in which the condemned person was cut apart with knives. It later came to be used as a curse or abusive expression.

Character breakdown

千 qiān thousand
刀 dāo knife
万萬 wàn ten thousand
剁 duò to chop up (meat etc)

Stroke order

Le caractère 千 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 千

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 刀

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

Le caractère 万 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 万

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

How it used to be written

千

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

刀

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

万

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢至魏晉
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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