食言而肥
食言而肥 in English
- lit. to grow fat eating one's words (idiom) / fig. not to live up to one's promises
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
食
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
言
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
而
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 16 forms
肥
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Warring States script 戰國.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).