含苞吐萼

含苞吐萼 in English

hán bāo tǔ è: (idiom) Describes a flower that is about to open, with its buds beginning to reveal the petals.

Character breakdown

含 hán to keep in the mouth
苞 bāo bud
吐 tǔ to spit
萼蕚 è calyx of a flower

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 含

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

How it used to be written

含

Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
Clerical script 曹魏
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苞

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 7 forms

吐

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢

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

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