抟空捕影摶空捕影

抟空捕影摶空捕影 in English

tuán kōng bǔ yǐng: (idiom) To speak or act without the slightest factual basis / to make baseless claims or assumptions.

Character breakdown

抟摶 tuán to roll up into a ball with one's hands …
空 kōng empty
捕 bǔ to catch
影 yǐng picture

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 空

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 捕

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 影

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

How it used to be written

抟

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

Small seal script
Clerical script 西漢

空

Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
Clerical script 東漢
See all 6 forms

捕

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 5 forms

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

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