鳌鸣鳖应

鳌鸣鳖应 in English

áo míng biē yīng: (idiom) It describes people or groups that understand and respond to one another instinctively because they are on the same wavelength.

Character breakdown

鳌鰲 áo mythological sea turtle
鸣鳴 míng to cry (of birds, animals and insects)
鳖鼈 biē softshell turtle
应應 yīng to agree (to do sth)

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 应

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

How it used to be written

鸣

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

应

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

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 8 forms

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

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