只词褒贬

只词褒贬 in English

zhī cí bāo biǎn
(idiom) A single word can convey praise or condemnation. More broadly, it refers to precision and restraint in choosing words when recording events or judging people.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

  • Chu manuscripts: 只 Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
  • Small seal script: 只 Small seal script

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

These are the forms of 貶, the traditional character: 贬 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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