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Mythic Mandarin

岸 (àn): meaning and stroke order

岸 (àn) means bank; shore; beach; coast, variant of 岸.

岸

Simplified
岸
Traditional
岸, 㟁
Pinyin
àn

Stroke order of 岸

岸

  • àn variant of 岸[an4]
  • àn bank; shore; beach; coast
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 㟁

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 岸

  1. àn
    • bank; shore; beach; coast
  2. àn Traditional 㟁
    • variant of 岸[an4]

Radical and structure

岸
Radical 山 (Kangxi radical 46) · 8 strokes · 山 on top, 厈 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

岸 in our stories

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  • 鼓声一响，八条船冲了出去，岸上的人喊得比划船的人还累。

    gǔshēng yì xiǎng bā tiáo chuán chōng le chūqu àn shàng de rén hǎn de bǐ huáchuán de rén hái lèi

    When the drum sounded, the eight boats shot off, and the people on the bank shouted themselves more tired than the rowers.

    From the story Dragon boats in Hamburg HSK 5

Stories using 岸

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).