鹰瞵虎视

鹰瞵虎视 in English

yīng lín hǔ shì: (idiom) To watch with the fierceness and greed of an eagle and a tiger. It describes someone with ill intentions waiting for an opportunity to seize something.

Character breakdown

鹰鷹 yīng eagle
虎 hǔ tiger
视視 shì (literary, or bound form) to look at

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 虎

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 视

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

How it used to be written

鹰

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

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 西晉
See all 6 forms

瞵

Small seal script

虎

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 20 forms

视

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 22 forms

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

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