禽息鸟视

禽息鸟视 in English

qín xī niǎo shì: (idiom) To live comfortably while being unable to make any useful contribution to society.

Character breakdown

禽 qín (bound form) birds
息 xī breath
鸟鳥 niǎo bird
视視 shì (literary, or bound form) to look at

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 息

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 鸟

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 视

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

How it used to be written

禽

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 14 forms

息

Bronze script 商代晚期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

鸟

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

视

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 22 forms

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

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