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茶杯 (chá bēi): meaning and stroke order

茶杯 (chá bēi) means teacup, tea-glass, cup, mug, 只.

茶杯

Simplified
茶杯
Traditional
茶杯 (same form)
Pinyin
chá bēi

Stroke order of 茶杯

茶

  • chá tea; tea plant
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

杯

  • bēi cup; trophy cup
  • bēi variant of 杯[bei1]
  • bēi variant of 杯[bei1]; trophy cup
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 桮

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 茶杯

  1. chá bēi
    • teacup
    • tea-glass
    • cup
    • mug
    • CL:隻|只[zhi1]

Radicals of the characters

茶
Radical 艸 (Kangxi radical 140) · 10 strokes
杯
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 8 strokes · 木 on the left, 不 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.

茶杯 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 坐在对面的郝大爷一下子站了起来，手里的茶杯直晃：“砍树？除非先把我砍了！”

    zuò zài duìmiàn de Hǎo dàye yíxiàzi zhàn le qǐlai shǒu lǐ de chábēi zhí huàng kǎn shù chúfēi xiān bǎ wǒ kǎn le

    Old Mr Hao, sitting opposite, leapt to his feet, the teacup shaking in his hand: "Cut the tree? Over my dead body!"

    From the story The persimmon tree over the wall HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 茶杯

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).