如堕烟海

如堕烟海 in English

rú duò yān hǎi: (idiom) As if falling into a boundless sea of mist and smoke. It means losing one’s bearings, being unable to find the main thread or grasp the essentials.

Character breakdown

如 rú as
堕墮 duò to fall
烟煙 yān cigarette or pipe tobacco
海 hǎi ocean

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 如

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 烟

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 海

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

How it used to be written

如

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

烟

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

Bronze script 春秋晚期
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 10 forms

海

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

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

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