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Mythic Mandarin

表演 (biǎo yǎn): meaning and stroke order

表演 (biǎo yǎn) means play, show, performance, exhibition, to perform, to act, to demonstrate, 场.

表演

Simplified
表演
Traditional
表演 (same form)
Pinyin
biǎo yǎn

Stroke order of 表演

表

  • biǎo exterior surface; family relationship via females
  • biǎo watch (timepiece); meter; gauge
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 錶

Stroke by stroke

演

  • yǎn to perform (a play etc); to stage (a show); (bound form) to develop; to play out; to carry out (a task)
  • 14 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 表演

  1. biǎo yǎn
    • play
    • show
    • performance
    • exhibition
    • to perform
    • to act
    • to demonstrate
    • CL:場|场[chang3]

Radicals of the characters

表
Radical 衣 (Kangxi radical 145) · 8 strokes · 龶 on top, 𧘇 below
演
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 14 strokes · 氵 on the left, 寅 on the right

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.

表演 in our stories

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  • 后来国王请木匠再表演一次，木匠说：“我以前能做到，可是那个敢站着不动的人早就死了。”

    hòulái guówáng qǐng mùjiang zài biǎoyǎn yí cì mùjiang shuō wǒ yǐqián néng zuòdào kěshì nà gè gǎn zhàn zhe bú dòng de rén zǎo jiù sǐ le

    Later a king asked the carpenter to perform it again, and he said: "I used to be able to do it, but the man who dared to stand still died long ago."

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

Stories using 表演

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).