鹘仑吞枣 in English
- (idiom) To swallow a date whole without chewing or tasting it. It commonly describes studying or reading without digesting or analysing the material.
How it used to be written
鹘
These are the forms of 鶻, the traditional character: 鹘 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script
仑
These are the forms of 崙, the traditional character: 仑 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script
吞
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 4 forms
枣
These are the forms of 棗, the traditional character: 枣 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢至魏晉 - See all 12 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).