如痴如呆

如痴如呆 in English

rú chī rú dāi: (idiom) Describes someone who is utterly absorbed or fascinated by something.

Character breakdown

如 rú as
痴癡 chī imbecile
呆 dāi stupid (variant of 呆[dai1])

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 呆 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 呆

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

痴

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

Small seal script
Qin bamboo slips 秦

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

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