深蓝吸蜜鹦鹉深藍吸蜜鸚鵡 in English

Character breakdown

• 深 shēn deep (lit. and fig.)
• 蓝藍 lán blue
• 吸 xī to breathe
• 蜜 mì honey
• 鹦鸚 yīng (bound form) parrot
• 鹉鵡 wǔ parrot

Stroke order

How it used to be written

深

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 14 forms

蓝

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

• Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
• Clerical script
• See all 5 forms

吸

• Small seal script
• Clerical script 東漢

蜜

• Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
• Clerical script 曹魏
• See all 4 forms

鹦

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

• Small seal script

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