垂帘听决

垂帘听决 in English

chuí lián tīng jué
(idiom) To refer to an empress dowager or queen mother who hears court affairs from behind a curtain and governs on behalf of a young ruler.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

垂

  • Small seal script: 垂 Small seal script

帘

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

  • Small seal script: 簾 Small seal script

听

  • Small seal script: 听 Small seal script

决

These are the forms of 決, the traditional character: 决 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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