衣冠土枭 衣冠土梟

衣冠土枭衣冠土梟 in English

yī guān tǔ xiāo
(idiom) It refers to a person of extremely bad character and despicable conduct. It is equivalent to calling someone a beast in human clothing.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

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