心有灵犀 心有靈犀
心有灵犀心有靈犀 in English
- (idiom) Originally described lovers who understand each other deeply. It is now also used for people who naturally understand one another’s thoughts.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
心
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 25 forms
有
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
灵
These are the forms of 靈, the traditional character: 灵 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
犀
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Bronze script 西周 -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 9 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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他和我简直心有灵犀，才刚说一句，另一方已经回应。
He and I have a near-telepathic understanding of each other. No sooner does one of us say something than the other is already responding.
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我们心有灵犀。
Our hearts are linked.