耳听是虚，眼见是实 in English
- (idiom) What one hears cannot necessarily be trusted / what one sees with one’s own eyes is considered reliable.
Character breakdown
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.
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
耳
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 19 forms
听
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Small seal script
是
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 forms
虚
These are the forms of 虛, the traditional character: 虚 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
眼
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Small seal script
见
These are the forms of 見, the traditional character: 见 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
实
These are the forms of 實, the traditional character: 实 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
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).