阿鼻叫唤

阿鼻叫唤 in English

ā bí jiào huàn
(idiom) Originally, this refers to the cries of those who have fallen into the Avīci hell. By extension, it describes an extremely tragic voice calling for help.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

  • Small seal script: 叫 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 叫 Clerical script 東漢

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

  • Small seal script: 喚 Small seal script

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

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