泪如泉涌

泪如泉涌 in English

lèi rú quán yǒng: (idiom) Tears gush forth like a spring. It describes someone overwhelmed by grief or fear.

Character breakdown

泪淚 lèi (bound form) tears
如 rú as
泉 quán spring (small stream)
涌湧 yǒng to bubble up

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 泪

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 如

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

How it used to be written

泪

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

Clerical script 東漢

如

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

泉

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

涌

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 3 forms

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

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