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不周山 (Bù zhōu Shān): meaning and stroke order

不周山 (Bù zhōu Shān) means Buzhou Mountain, a mountain from Chinese legend.

不周山

Simplified
不周山
Traditional
不周山 (same form)
Pinyin
Bù zhōu Shān

Stroke order of 不周山

不

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

Stroke by stroke

周

  • Zhōu surname Zhou; Zhou Dynasty (1046–256 BC)
  • zhōu to make a circuit; to circle
  • zhōu week; weekly
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 週

Stroke by stroke

山

  • Shān surname Shan
  • shān mountain; hill (CL:座[zuo4]); (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 不周山

  1. Bù zhōu Shān
    • Buzhou Mountain, a mountain from Chinese legend

Radicals of the characters

不
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 4 strokes · built from 丆 and 卜
周
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 8 strokes
山
Radical 山 (Kangxi radical 46) · 3 strokes · built from 凵 and 丨

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.

不周山 in our stories

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  • 这一仗从天上打到地下，打得山崩地裂，最后共工大败，狼狈地逃到了西北的不周山下。

    zhè yí zhàng cóng tiān shàng dǎ dào dì xià dǎ de shānbēng-dìliè zuìhòu Gònggōng dàbài lángbèi de táo dào le xīběi de Bùzhōu Shān xià

    The battle raged from the heavens to the underworld until mountains fell and the earth split; at last Gonggong was routed and fled in disarray to the foot of Mount Buzhou in the north-west.

    From the story Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 不周山

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).