惊心吊魄
惊心吊魄 in English
- (idiom) Describes something that causes extreme fear and tension. It has the same meaning as “shocking and gripping.”
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
惊
These are the forms of 驚, the traditional character: 惊 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
心
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 25 forms
吊
These are the forms of 弔, the traditional character: 吊 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 23 forms
魄
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西漢
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).