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Mythic Mandarin

不服气 (bù fú qì): meaning and stroke order

不服气 (bù fú qì) means unwilling to concede, defiant, indignant, to find it galling.

不服气

Simplified
不服气
Traditional
不服氣
Pinyin
bù fú qì

Stroke order of 不服气

不

  • bù no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

服

  • fú clothes; dress
  • fù classifier for medicine: dose; Taiwan pr. [fu2]
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

气

  • qì gas; air; smell
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 氣

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 不服气

  1. bù fú qì Traditional 不服氣
    • unwilling to concede
    • defiant
    • indignant
    • to find it galling

Radicals of the characters

不
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 4 strokes · built from 丆 and 卜
服
Radical 月 (Kangxi radical 74) · 8 strokes · 月 on the left, 𠬝 on the right
气
Radical 气 (Kangxi radical 84) · 4 strokes

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.

不服气 in our stories

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  • 一个掌管风雨的龙王，最后输给的不是凡人的本事，而是自己那一点点不服气。

    yí gè zhǎngguǎn fēngyǔ de Lóngwáng zuìhòu shū gěi de bú shì fánrén de běnshi érshì zìjǐ nà yìdiǎndiǎn bù fúqì

    A Dragon King who ruled wind and rain was defeated in the end not by a mortal's skill, but by his own small refusal to lose.

    From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 不服气

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).