干啼湿哭

干啼湿哭 in English

gān tí shī kū: (idiom) Describes someone crying and sobbing, with or without tears. More broadly, it refers to the various expressions produced by suffering.

Character breakdown

干 gān (bound form) to have to do with
啼嗁 tí (bound form) to cry
湿濕 shī moist
哭 kū to cry

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 干

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 哭

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

How it used to be written

干

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

啼

Clerical script 東漢

湿

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

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 6 forms

哭

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
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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