鹘仑吞枣

鹘仑吞枣 in English

hú lún tūn zǎo
(idiom) To swallow a date whole without chewing or tasting it. It commonly describes studying or reading without digesting or analysing the material.

Character breakdown

How it used to be written

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

  • Small seal script: 鶻 Small seal script

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

  • Small seal script: 崙 Small seal script

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

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

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