莺声燕语

莺声燕语 in English

yīng shēng yàn yǔ: (idiom) Originally, it described the splendid beauty of spring. It later came to refer mainly to the melodious voices and laughter of young women.

Character breakdown

莺鸎 yīng oriole or various birds of the Sylvidae …
声聲 shēng sound
燕 yān Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-d…
语語 yǔ dialect

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 声

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 语

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

How it used to be written

声

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 11 forms

燕

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 7 forms

语

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

Bronze script 春秋晚期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 9 forms

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

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