燕雀乌鹊燕雀烏鵲

燕雀乌鹊燕雀烏鵲 in English

yàn què wū què: lit. sparrow and swallow, crow and magpie / fig. any Tom, Dick or Harry / a bunch of nobodies

Character breakdown

燕 yān Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-d…
雀 qiāo a freckle
乌烏 wū crow
鹊鵲 què magpie

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 乌

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

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

How it used to be written

燕

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 7 forms

雀

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢至魏晉
See all 10 forms

乌

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

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 25 forms

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

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