锦绣肝肠

锦绣肝肠 in English

jǐn xiù gān cháng
(idiom) To be rich in poetry and capable of producing fine lines and elegant expressions.

Character breakdown

How it used to be written

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

These are the forms of 繡, the traditional character: 绣 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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