危言悚听

危言悚听 in English

wēi yán sǒng tīng: (idiom) To deliberately make exaggerated and frightening statements in order to alarm or unsettle others.

Character breakdown

危 wēi danger
言 yán words
悚 sǒng frightened
听聽 tīng to listen to

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 危

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 言

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 听

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

How it used to be written

危

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西漢
See all 11 forms

言

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

听

Small seal script

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

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