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Mythic Mandarin

别的 (bié de): meaning and stroke order

别的 (bié de) means else, other.

别的

Simplified
别的
Traditional
別的
Pinyin
bié de

Stroke order of 别的

别

  • Bié surname Bie
  • bié to leave; to part (from); (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish
  • biè to make sb change their ways, opinions etc
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 別

Stroke by stroke

的

  • de of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  • dī a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士[di1 shi4])
  • dí really and truly
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 别的

  1. bié de Traditional 別的
    • else
    • other

Radicals of the characters

别
Radical 刀 (Kangxi radical 18) · 7 strokes · 另 on the left, 刂 on the right
的
Radical 白 (Kangxi radical 106) · 8 strokes · 白 on the left, 勺 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.

别的 in our stories

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  • 别的鱼都说:“太难了,我们跳不过去。”

    biéde yú dōu shuō tài nán le wǒmen tiào bú guòqu

    The other fish all said, "It's too hard. We can't jump over it."

    From the story The little carp's decision HSK 3

  • 柏青一页一页地修补,修到第三十七页时,发现这一页比别的纸厚一点儿,而且背面格外光滑。

    Bǎi Qīng yí yè yí yè de xiūbǔ xiū dào dì-sānshíqī yè shí fāxiàn zhè yí yè bǐ biéde zhǐ hòu yìdiǎnr érqiě bèimiàn géwài guānghuá

    Bai Qing repaired it page by page. At page thirty-seven she noticed the sheet was slightly thicker than the others, and unusually smooth on the back.

    From the story Words written in rice water HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 丝绸之所以能在丝绸之路上卖出像黄金一样高的价钱,正是因为别的国家根本不知道它是怎么做出来的。

    sīchóu zhīsuǒyǐ néng zài Sīchóu zhī Lù shàng mài chū xiàng huángjīn yíyàng gāo de jiàqian zhèngshì yīnwèi biéde guójiā gēnběn bù zhīdao tā shì zěnme zuò chūlai de

    The reason silk could fetch prices as high as gold along the Silk Road was precisely that other countries had no idea how it was made.

    From the story Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 别的

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).