望风破胆 in English
- (idiom) To be terrified merely by seeing an opponent’s power or momentum from afar. It describes an army with no will to fight, completely intimidated by the enemy.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
望
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 19 forms
风
These are the forms of 風, the traditional character: 风 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
破
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
胆
These are the forms of 膽, the traditional character: 胆 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 3 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).