杜口绝舌

杜口绝舌 in English

dù kǒu jué shé: (idiom) To keep one’s mouth shut and be unable to speak. It describes being lost for an answer or rendered speechless by fear.

Character breakdown

杜 dù birchleaf pear (tree)
口 kǒu mouth
绝絶 jué to cut short
舌 shé tongue

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 杜

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 口

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 绝

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

How it used to be written

杜

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 14 forms

口

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 9 forms

舌

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script
See all 10 forms

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

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