闪烁其辞

闪烁其辞 in English

shǎn shuò qí cí
(idiom) To speak evasively and hesitantly, refusing to reveal the truth or avoiding the key issue.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

  • Small seal script: 閃 Small seal script

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

  • Small seal script: 爍 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 爍 Clerical script 東漢

These are the forms of 辭, the traditional character: 辞 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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