阿谀顺旨 阿諛順旨
阿谀顺旨阿諛順旨 in English
- (idiom) To flatter someone and comply with their wishes. The expression is generally derogatory and is used in social or professional contexts.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
阿
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Bronze script 戰國 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
谀
These are the forms of 諛, the traditional character: 谀 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script
顺
These are the forms of 順, the traditional character: 顺 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 13 forms
旨
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).