苍蝇 (cāng ying): meaning and stroke order

苍蝇 in our stories

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• 很久以前，有一个人在鼻尖上抹了一点薄得像苍蝇翅膀的白灰，请一位木匠用斧头把它砍掉。

  hěn jiǔ yǐqián yǒu yí gè rén zài bíjiān shàng mǒ le yì diǎn báo de xiàng cāngying chìbǎng de bái huī qǐng yí wèi mùjiang yòng fǔtou bǎ tā kǎn diào

  Once there was a man who daubed a speck of white plaster, as thin as a fly's wing, on the tip of his nose and asked a carpenter to chop it off with an axe.

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

• 那天天气很热。过了不一会儿，一群苍蝇飞了过来，在镰刀上空转了几圈，然后全部落在了其中一把上，怎么赶也赶不走。

  nà tiān tiānqì hěn rè guò le bù yíhuìr yì qún cāngying fēi le guòlai zài liándāo shàngkōng zhuàn le jǐ quān ránhòu quánbù luò zài le qízhōng yì bǎ shàng zěnme gǎn yě gǎn bù zǒu

  It was a hot day. Before long a swarm of flies flew over, circled above the sickles a few times, and then all settled on one of them; nothing could drive them off.

  From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9