添盐着醋

添盐着醋 in English

tiān yán zhe cù
(idiom) To exaggerate an account or someone else’s words by adding details that were not originally there. It is equivalent to embellishing or distorting the story.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

  • Clerical script: 著 Clerical script 東漢
  • Clerical script: 著 Clerical script 曹魏

  • Small seal script: 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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