龙吟虎啸

龙吟虎啸 in English

lóng yīn hǔ xiào
(idiom) Describes related phenomena or beings responding to and influencing one another. It can also describe someone rising to prominence.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 龙 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 龙 Show the animation

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

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 Show the animation

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

How it used to be written

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

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

  • Ancient forms in the Shuowen: 嘯 Ancient forms in the Shuowen
  • Small seal script: 嘯 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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