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尘土 (chén tǔ): meaning and stroke order

尘土 (chén tǔ) means dust.

尘土

Simplified
尘土
Traditional
塵土
Pinyin
chén tǔ

Stroke order of 尘土

尘

  • chén dust; dirt
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 塵

Stroke by stroke

土

  • Tǔ Tu (ethnic group); surname Tu
  • tǔ earth; dust
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 尘土

  1. chén tǔ Traditional 塵土
    • dust

Radicals of the characters

尘
Radical 小 (Kangxi radical 42) · 6 strokes · 𡭔 on top, 土 below
土
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 3 strokes · 十 on top, 一 below

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.

尘土 in our stories

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  • 他跑过了一座又一座高山，跨过了一条又一条大河，脚下扬起的尘土遮住了半边天。

    tā pǎo guò le yí zuò yòu yí zuò gāoshān kuà guò le yì tiáo yòu yì tiáo dàhé jiǎo xià yángqǐ de chéntǔ zhē zhù le bànbiāntiān

    He ran over mountain after mountain and strode across river after river, and the dust raised by his feet blotted out half the sky.

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 尘土

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).