闭口藏舌 閉口藏舌
闭口藏舌閉口藏舌 in English
- (idiom) To keep one’s mouth shut and say nothing. It describes someone who avoids speaking frankly out of fear of trouble.
Stroke order
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
闭
These are the forms of 閉, the traditional character: 闭 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
-
Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
口
-
Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
藏
-
Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 7 forms
舌
-
Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script - See all 10 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).