焦唇敝舌
焦唇敝舌 in English
- (idiom) To exhaust oneself arguing or explaining. It emphasizes the considerable effort spent trying to persuade someone or make something clear.
How it used to be written
焦
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Bronze script 戰國.燕 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 11 forms
唇
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Small seal script
敝
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
舌
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script - See all 10 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).