诘屈謷牙 詰屈謷牙
诘屈謷牙詰屈謷牙 in English
- (idiom) To describe writing whose sentences are obscure, difficult, and lacking in fluency. It is synonymous with “awkward and hard-to-read phrasing.”
Stroke order
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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.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 3 forms
屈
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Bronze script 春秋早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
謷
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Small seal script
牙
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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).