嘤鸣求友声 嚶鳴求友聲

嘤鸣求友声嚶鳴求友聲 in English

yīng míng qiú yǒu shēng
(idiom) Birds sing softly to call for companions. It metaphorically refers to seeking friends who share one's aspirations.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

How it used to be written

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

  • Small seal script: 嚶 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 嚶 Clerical script 西晉

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

These are the forms of 聲, the traditional character: 声 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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