黄雀在后

黄雀在后 in English

huáng què zài hòu: (idiom) Someone waiting for an opportunity to attack from behind / also a hidden threat or lingering concern.

Character breakdown

黄黃 huáng yellow
雀 qiāo a freckle
在 zài to exist
后後 hòu back

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 黄

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 在

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 后

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

How it used to be written

黄

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

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
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雀

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢至魏晉
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在

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
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后

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 10 forms

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

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