夸夸而谈

夸夸而谈 in English

kuā kuā ér tán: (idiom) To speak in an exaggerated and impractical manner, making grandiose claims detached from reality.

Character breakdown

夸誇 kuā to boast
而 ér and
谈談 tán to speak

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 而

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 谈

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

How it used to be written

夸

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西漢
See all 8 forms

而

Bronze script 西周晚期
Clerical script 西晉
See all 16 forms

谈

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

Warring States script 戰國.齊
Clerical script 東漢
See all 7 forms

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

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