骇人闻听

骇人闻听 in English

hài rén wén tīng
(idiom) Causes great shock or fear in those who hear it. It is also written “骇人听闻”.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Small seal script: 駭 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 駭 Clerical script

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

  • Small seal script: 听 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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