桑落瓦解

桑落瓦解 in English

sāng luò wǎ jiě: (idiom) Like mulberry leaves falling and roof tiles coming apart, it describes a situation deteriorating to the point of being beyond recovery.

Character breakdown

桑桒 sāng (bound form) mulberry tree
落 là to leave out
瓦 wǎ roof tile
解 jiě to divide

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 落

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 瓦

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 解

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

How it used to be written

桑

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 9 forms

落

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 3 forms

瓦

Warring States script 戰國.秦
Clerical script 東漢
See all 8 forms

解

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢至魏晉
See all 15 forms

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

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