可歌可泣

可歌可泣 in English

kě gē kě qì: lit. you can sing or you can cry (idiom) / fig. deeply moving / happy and sad / inspiring and tragic

Character breakdown

可 kě (prefix) can
歌謌 gē song (CL:首[shou3],支[zhi1])
泣 qì to sob

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 可

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 歌

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

How it used to be written

可

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 14 forms

歌

Bronze script 春秋晚期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

泣

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Clerical script 東漢
See all 7 forms

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

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