画龙点睛畫龍點睛 in English
- to paint a dragon and dot in the eyes (idiom) / fig. to add the vital finishing touch / the crucial point that brings the subject to life / a few words to clinch the point
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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How it used to be written
画
These are the forms of 畫, the traditional character: 画 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
龙
These are the forms of 龍, the traditional character: 龙 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 18 forms
点
These are the forms of 點, the traditional character: 点 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script
睛
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Clerical script 西漢
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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我将增加画龙点睛的功能。
I'll add the finishing touch.
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画龙点睛是一则寓言故事。
"Drawing dragons and dotting in the eyes" is a fable.