故作高深

故作高深 in English

gù zuò gāo shēn: (idiom) To pretend to be profound when one is not. It often describes writing that deliberately uses difficult words to conceal shallow content.

Character breakdown

故 gù happening
作 zuò to do
高 gāo high
深 shēn deep (lit. and fig.)

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 故

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.

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 高

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 深

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

How it used to be written

故

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 8 forms

作

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

高

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

深

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 14 forms

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

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