口惠而实不至 口惠而實不至
口惠而实不至口惠而實不至 in English
- (idiom) To promise someone benefits verbally without actually providing them. It criticizes fine words that are not followed by action.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
口
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
惠
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 18 forms
而
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 16 forms
实
These are the forms of 實, the traditional character: 实 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
至
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).