推聋作哑推聾作啞

推聋作哑推聾作啞 in English

tuī lóng zuò yǎ: (idiom) To pretend not to hear or know anything, deliberately avoiding taking a position or getting involved.

Character breakdown

推 tuī to push
聋聾 lóng deaf
作 zuò to do
哑啞 yǎ mute

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 推

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 作

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

How it used to be written

推

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 4 forms

聋

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西漢
See all 7 forms

作

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

哑

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

Small seal script

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

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