唇齿相依唇齒相依

唇齿相依唇齒相依 in English

chún chǐ xiāng yī: lit. as close as lips and teeth (idiom) / closely related / interdependent

Character breakdown

唇脣 chún lip
齿齒 chǐ tooth
相 xiāng each other
依 yī to depend on

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 相

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 依

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

How it used to be written

唇

Small seal script

齿

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

相

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 22 forms

依

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

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

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