点指划脚

点指划脚 in English

diǎn zhǐ jí jiǎo
(idiom) To speak while using hand gestures for emphasis or indication. It often suggests an unrestrained manner of speaking, or careless pointing and criticism.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 点 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 点 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 指 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 指 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 划 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 划 Show the animation

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

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

  • Small seal script: 點 Small seal script

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

  • Chu manuscripts: 劃 Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
  • Small seal script: 劃 Small seal script

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

  • Small seal script: 腳 Small seal script
  • Qin bamboo slips: 腳 Qin bamboo slips

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

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