掩口失声 掩口失聲

掩口失声掩口失聲 in English

yǎn kǒu shī shēng
(idiom) To be unable to keep from laughing aloud, often while covering one’s mouth.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

Le caractère 声 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 声 Show the animation
Le caractère 聲 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: 掩 Small seal script

  • Bronze script: 失 Bronze script 商代晚期或西周早期
  • Clerical script: 失 Clerical script 東漢
  • See all 13 forms

These are the forms of 聲, the traditional character: 声 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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