羸形垢面

羸形垢面 in English

léi xíng gòu miàn: (idiom) To describe a weak, emaciated body and a dirty appearance, characteristic of extreme poverty.

Character breakdown

羸 léi entangled
形 xíng to appear
垢 gòu dirt
面麵 miàn flour

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 形

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 面

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

How it used to be written

羸

Warring States script 戰國.秦
Clerical script 東漢
See all 6 forms

形

Small seal script
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 4 forms

垢

Small seal script

面

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

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

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