咳珠唾玉

咳珠唾玉 in English

ké zhū tuò yù: (idiom) Figuratively, it describes exceptionally beautiful wording in speech or writing.

Character breakdown

咳 hāi sound of sighing
珠 zhū bead
唾 tuò saliva
玉 yù jade

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 珠

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 玉

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

How it used to be written

咳

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 5 forms

珠

Warring States script 戰國.秦
Clerical script 孫吳
See all 8 forms

唾

Small seal script
Clerical script 西漢
See all 3 forms

玉

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

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

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