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Mythic Mandarin

鼻尖 (bí jiān): meaning and stroke order

鼻尖 (bí jiān) means tip of the nose.

鼻尖

Simplified
鼻尖
Traditional
鼻尖 (same form)
Pinyin
bí jiān

Stroke order of 鼻尖

鼻

  • bí nose
  • 14 strokes

Stroke by stroke

尖

  • jiān pointed; tapering; sharp; (of a sound) shrill; piercing
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 鼻尖

  1. bí jiān
    • tip of the nose

Radicals of the characters

鼻
Radical 鼻 (Kangxi radical 209) · 14 strokes · 自 on top, 畀 below
尖
Radical 小 (Kangxi radical 42) · 6 strokes · 𡭔 on top, 大 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.

鼻尖 in our stories

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  • 很久以前，有一个人在鼻尖上抹了一点薄得像苍蝇翅膀的白灰，请一位木匠用斧头把它砍掉。

    hěn jiǔ yǐqián yǒu yí gè rén zài bíjiān shàng mǒ le yì diǎn báo de xiàng cāngying chìbǎng de bái huī qǐng yí wèi mùjiang yòng fǔtou bǎ tā kǎn diào

    Once there was a man who daubed a speck of white plaster, as thin as a fly's wing, on the tip of his nose and asked a carpenter to chop it off with an axe.

    From the story The happiness of fish HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 鼻尖

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).