惊心骇目 驚心駭目

惊心骇目驚心駭目 in English

jīng xīn hài mù
(idiom) To be deeply shocked by what one sees. It describes being astonished and horrified by a sight.

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.

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

  • Small seal script: 駭 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 駭 Clerical script

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

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