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Mythic Mandarin

边塞 (biān sài): meaning and stroke order

边塞 (biān sài) means frontier fortress.

边塞

Simplified
边塞
Traditional
邊塞
Pinyin
biān sài

Stroke order of 边塞

边

  • biān side; edge
  • bian suffix of a noun of locality
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 邊

Stroke by stroke

塞

  • sāi to plug; to stop up; to stuff in; (bound form) a stopper; a cork
  • sài (bound form) strategic stronghold
  • sè (bound form) to block; to obstruct
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 边塞

  1. biān sài Traditional 邊塞
    • frontier fortress

Radicals of the characters

边
Radical 辵 (Kangxi radical 162) · 6 strokes · built from 辶 and 力
塞
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 13 strokes · 𡨄 on top, 土 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.

边塞 in our stories

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  • 舅舅听了他的故事，讲起了一个古老的故事：边塞有个老人丢了一匹马，邻居都来安慰他，他却说：“谁知道这不是好事呢？”

    jiùjiu tīng le tā de gùshi jiǎng qǐ le yí gè gǔlǎo de gùshi biānsài yǒu gè lǎorén diū le yì pǐ mǎ línjū dōu lái ānwèi tā tā què shuō shéi zhīdao zhè bú shì hǎoshì ne

    Hearing his story, his uncle told an ancient one: an old man on the frontier lost a horse, and when the neighbours came to console him he said, "Who knows that this isn't a blessing?"

    From the story The old man who lost his horse HSK 6

Stories using 边塞

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).