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Mythic Mandarin

表扬 (biǎo yáng): meaning and stroke order

表扬 (biǎo yáng) means to praise, to commend.

表扬

Simplified
表扬
Traditional
表揚
Pinyin
biǎo yáng

Stroke order of 表扬

表

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

Stroke by stroke

扬

  • Yáng abbr. for Yangzhou 揚州|扬州[Yang2 zhou1] in Jiangsu; surname Yang
  • yáng to raise; to hoist
  • yáng variant of 揚|扬[yang2]
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 揚

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 表扬

  1. biǎo yáng Traditional 表揚
    • to praise
    • to commend

Radicals of the characters

表
Radical 衣 (Kangxi radical 145) · 8 strokes · 龶 on top, 𧘇 below
扬
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 6 strokes · 扌 on the left, 𠃓 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.

表扬 in our stories

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  • 按理说，在这样的事故里保住了所有人的性命，船长石青山应该受到表扬。

    ànlǐshuō zài zhèyàng de shìgù lǐ bǎozhù le suǒyǒu rén de xìngmìng chuánzhǎng Shí Qīngshān yīnggāi shòudào biǎoyáng

    By rights, having saved every life in such an accident, Captain Shi Qingshan should have been praised.

    From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 表扬

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).