谄笑胁肩

谄笑胁肩 in English

chǎn xiào xié jiān
(idiom) To put on a flattering smile and draw in one’s shoulders to please others. It describes a servile and unseemly display of sycophancy.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

Le caractère 肩 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 肩 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 諂, the traditional character: 谄 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

These are the forms of 脅, the traditional character: 胁 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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