鼓舌扬唇

鼓舌扬唇 in English

gǔ shé yáng chún: (idiom) To move the tongue and open the lips / by extension, to begin speaking or singing.

Character breakdown

鼓 gǔ drum
舌 shé tongue
扬揚 yáng to raise
唇脣 chún lip

Stroke order

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 鼓

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

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

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 扬

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

How it used to be written

鼓

Bronze script 商代晚期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

舌

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script
See all 10 forms

扬

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

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 9 forms

唇

Small seal script

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

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