掩耳蹙頞

掩耳蹙頞 in English

yǎn ěr cù è
(idiom) To cover one's ears and wrinkle one's nose. It describes extreme disgust and an unwillingness to hear something mentioned.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

How it used to be written

掩

  • Small seal script: 掩 Small seal script

耳

蹙

  • Small seal script: 蹙 Small seal script

頞

  • Small seal script: 頞 Small seal script
  • Small seal script: 頞 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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