旷若发蒙

旷若发蒙 in English

kuàng ruò fā méng
(idiom) To see one’s field of vision suddenly open up, like a blind person abruptly gaining sight. It also describes a sudden breakthrough in understanding.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

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

These are the forms of 發, the traditional character: 发 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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