披心沥血披心瀝血

披心沥血披心瀝血 in English

pī xīn lì xuè: (idiom) To open one’s heart until blood flows. Figuratively, it means to give one’s complete loyalty and sincerity.

Character breakdown

披 pī to drape over one's shoulders
心 xīn heart
沥瀝 lì to drip
血 xiě blood

Stroke order

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

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 血

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

How it used to be written

披

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢

心

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 25 forms

沥

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

Small seal script

血

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

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

See 披心沥血 in the search results