口吐珠玑 口吐珠璣

口吐珠玑口吐珠璣 in English

kǒu tǔ zhū jī
(idiom) To speak with brilliance and literary elegance.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

  • Small seal script: 吐 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 吐 Clerical script 東漢

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

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

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