披肝露胆 披肝露膽

披肝露胆披肝露膽 in English

pī gān lù dǎn
(idiom) To speak with complete frankness or show absolute loyalty. It can also mean to reveal one’s thoughts sincerely.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

How it used to be written

  • Small seal script: 披 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 披 Clerical script 東漢

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

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

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