祸从口出，病从口入 in English
- (idiom) A careless word can bring trouble, and unsuitable food can cause illness. The expression mainly stresses the need to be careful about what one says.
Stroke order
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Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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
祸
These are the forms of 禍, the traditional character: 祸 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
从
These are the forms of 從, the traditional character: 从 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
口
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
出
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
病
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
入
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).