玉殒香消 玉殞香消

玉殒香消玉殞香消 in English

yù yǔn xiāng xiāo
(idiom) The death of a beautiful woman, expressed in poetic and euphemistic language. It portrays her death as the falling of jade and the fading of a flower.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

  • Clerical script: 殞 Clerical script 東漢
  • Clerical script: 殞 Clerical script 西晉

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

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