望眼将穿

望眼将穿 in English

wàng yǎn jiāng chuān
(idiom) To gaze so intently that one’s eyes seem ready to pierce through. It describes eager, intense waiting, usually for someone.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

望

眼

  • Small seal script: 眼 Small seal script

将

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

穿

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

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