飘飘零零

飘飘零零 in English

piāo piāo líng líng: (idiom) Describes flowers, leaves, and other things withering and falling. Metaphorically, it also describes a person wandering from place to place in hardship.

Character breakdown

飘飄 piāo to float (in the air)
零 líng zero

Stroke order

Le caractère 零 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 零

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

How it used to be written

飘

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

Small seal script
Clerical script 東漢
See all 3 forms

零

Small seal script
Clerical script 西晉
See all 5 forms

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

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