语言无味，面目可憎 in English
- (idiom) Describes a person whose speech is dull and whose appearance is repellent.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
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Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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
语
These are the forms of 語, the traditional character: 语 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 春秋晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
言
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
无
These are the forms of 無, the traditional character: 无 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 24 forms
味
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
面
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
目
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
可
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
憎
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).