襟裾马牛 襟裾馬牛

襟裾马牛襟裾馬牛 in English

jīn jú mǎ niú
(idiom) To compare an ignorant, unintelligent person to an animal dressed in human clothes. It is an insulting expression.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

  • Small seal script: 裾 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 裾 Clerical script 西漢

These are the forms of 馬, the traditional character: 马 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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