添油加醋

添油加醋 in English

tiān yóu jiā cù: lit. to add oil and vinegar / fig. adding details while telling a story (to make it more interesting)

Character breakdown

添 tiān to add
油 yóu oil
加 jiā to add
醋 cù vinegar

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 油

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 加

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

How it used to be written

油

Bronze script 戰國中期.楚
Small seal script

加

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
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醋

Small seal script

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

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