寓贬于褒

寓贬于褒 in English

yù biǎn yú bāo: (idiom) To convey criticism beneath the appearance of praise. The wording seems complimentary but actually contains mockery or censure.

Character breakdown

寓庽 yù (bound form) to reside
贬貶 biǎn to diminish
于於 yú (of time or place) in
褒襃 bāo to praise

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 于

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

How it used to be written

寓

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 西漢
See all 8 forms

贬

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

Small seal script
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 3 forms

于

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

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

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