惊心怵目 驚心怵目

惊心怵目驚心怵目 in English

jīng xīn chù mù
(idiom) To be deeply shocked and horrified by what one sees. It is synonymous with “to be horrified at the sight of something.”

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 惊 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 惊 Show the animation
Le caractère 驚 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

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

Le caractère 心 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 心 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 目 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 目 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

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

  • Small seal script: 怵 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 怵 Clerical script 曹魏至西晉

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

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