舌剑唇枪

舌剑唇枪 in English

shé jiàn chún qiāng
(idiom) Describes a heated dispute in which words are sharp and both sides respond blow for blow without yielding.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 剑 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 剑 Show the animation

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

Le caractère 枪 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 枪 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

舌

唇

  • Small seal script: 唇 Small seal script

枪

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

  • Bronze script: 鎗 Bronze script 西周晚期
  • Small seal script: 鎗 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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