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案子 (àn zi): meaning and stroke order

案子 (àn zi) means long table; counter, (coll.) case (criminal, medical etc); matter; project; job.

案子

Simplified
案子
Traditional
案子 (same form)
Pinyin
àn zi

Stroke order of 案子

案

  • àn (legal) case; incident
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

子

  • zǐ son; child
  • zi noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 案子

  1. àn zi
    • long table; counter
    • (coll.) case (criminal, medical etc); matter; project; job

Radicals of the characters

案
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 10 strokes · 安 on top, 木 below
子
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 3 strokes · built from 了 and 一

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.

案子 in our stories

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  • 书中记着这样一个案子。某天清晨，有人在村外的小路旁发现了一具尸体，身上有十几处伤口。

    shū zhōng jì zhe zhèyàng yí gè ànzi mǒu tiān qīngchén yǒu rén zài cūn wài de xiǎolù páng fāxiàn le yí jù shītǐ shēnshang yǒu shíjǐ chù shāngkǒu

    The book records a case like this. Early one morning someone found a body beside a path outside a village, with more than ten wounds on it.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 案子

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).