咏嘲风月 詠嘲風月

咏嘲风月詠嘲風月 in English

yǒng cháo fēng yuè
(idiom) To write about the wind, clouds, moon, and dew in work that is intellectually empty. The expression criticizes writing reduced to descriptions of scenery.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

  • Small seal script: 嘲 Small seal script

These are the forms of 風, the traditional character: 风 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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