枭视狼顾

枭视狼顾 in English

xiāo shì láng gù
(idiom) To behave like an owl staring fixedly and a wolf repeatedly looking around. It describes wary, apprehensive conduct.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

Le caractère 顾 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 顾 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 梟, the traditional character: 枭 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

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

These are the forms of 顧, the traditional character: 顾 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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