诘屈聱牙詰屈聱牙

诘屈聱牙詰屈聱牙 in English

jié qū áo yá: (idiom) Describes writing or speech that is obscure, difficult to understand, and awkward to read or hear.

Character breakdown

诘詰 jié (bound form) to question closely
屈 qū bent
聱 áo difficult to pronounce
牙 yá tooth

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 牙

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

How it used to be written

诘

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

Small seal script
Clerical script 西漢
See all 3 forms

屈

Bronze script 春秋早期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

聱

Small seal script

牙

Bronze script 西周中期
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 14 forms

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

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