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Mythic Mandarin

长城 (Cháng chéng): meaning and stroke order

长城 (Cháng chéng) means the Great Wall.

长城

Simplified
长城
Traditional
長城
Pinyin
Cháng chéng

Stroke order of 长城

长

  • cháng long; (bound form) length
  • zhǎng chief; head
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 長

Stroke by stroke

城

  • chéng city walls; city
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 长城

  1. Cháng chéng Traditional 長城
    • the Great Wall

Radicals of the characters

长
Radical 长 (Kangxi radical 168) in its simplified form · 4 strokes
城
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 9 strokes · 土 on the left, 成 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.

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).