耳闻不如眼见耳聞不如眼見 in English
- (idiom) What one hears is less reliable than what one sees. Direct experience is more trustworthy than hearsay or second-hand reports.
Stroke order
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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
闻
These are the forms of 聞, the traditional character: 闻 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 22 forms
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
如
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 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
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).