渺若烟云

渺若烟云 in English

miǎo ruò yān yún: (idiom) To be vague and elusive like smoke or clouds. It describes something indistinct, uncertain, and difficult to grasp.

Character breakdown

渺 miǎo (of an expanse of water) vast
若 ruò to seem
烟煙 yān cigarette or pipe tobacco
云雲 yún cloud

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 若

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 烟

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 云

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

How it used to be written

若

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

烟

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

Bronze script 春秋晚期
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 10 forms

云

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

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

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