瞎灯灭火 瞎燈滅火

瞎灯灭火瞎燈滅火 in English

xiā dēng miè huǒ
(idiom) With the lamp out and the fire extinguished, it describes a night or place in complete darkness. It is mainly used in spoken language.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

  • Clerical script: 燈 Clerical script 東漢

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

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

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