蛙鸣蝉噪 in English

Character breakdown

• 蛙鼃 wā frog
• 鸣鳴 míng to cry (of birds, animals and insects)
• 蝉蟬 chán cicada
• 噪譟 zào (literary) (of birds or insects) to chir…

How it used to be written

鸣

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

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 11 forms

蝉

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

• Small seal script
• Clerical script
• See all 3 forms

噪

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

• Small seal script
• Clerical script 西漢

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