鸡犬不安

鸡犬不安 in English

jī quǎn bù ān: (idiom) Describes such severe disturbance or violence that even residents and their animals cannot live in peace. It is equivalent to “chickens and dogs unrest.”

Character breakdown

鸡雞 jī fowl
犬 quǎn dog
不 bù no
安 ān (bound form) calm

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 鸡

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 不

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 安

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

How it used to be written

鸡

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

犬

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

不

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 21 forms

安

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 31 forms

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

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