胡子拉碴

胡子拉碴 in English

hú zǐ lā chā: (idiom) To have one’s face covered with a thick, unkempt, uneven beard.

Character breakdown

胡鬍 hú beard
子 zǐ son
拉 lā to pull
碴 chá fault

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 胡

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 子

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 拉

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

How it used to be written

胡

Warring States script 戰國.齊
Clerical script 蜀漢
See all 11 forms

子

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
See all 32 forms

拉

Small seal script

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

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