熟视不睹

熟视不睹 in English

shú shì bù dǔ: (idiom) Repeated exposure makes something seem invisible. It also describes someone who sees a phenomenon but ignores it as though it were not there.

Character breakdown

熟 shú ripe
视視 shì (literary, or bound form) to look at
不 bù no
睹覩 dǔ to observe

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 熟

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 视

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 不

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

How it used to be written

熟

Clerical script 東漢

视

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 22 forms

不

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 21 forms

睹

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 6 forms

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

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