谑近于虐

谑近于虐 in English

xuè jìn yú nüè
(idiom) A joke can come close to cruelty when it hurts or humiliates the person targeted.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

谑

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

  • Small seal script: 謔 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 謔 Clerical script 東漢

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虐

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

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