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Mythic Mandarin

趁 (chèn): meaning and stroke order

趁 (chèn) means to avail oneself of, to take advantage of, old variant of 趁.

趁

Simplified
趁
Traditional
趁, 趂
Pinyin
chèn

Stroke order of 趁

趁

  • chèn to avail oneself of; to take advantage of
  • chèn old variant of 趁[chen4]
  • 12 strokes
  • Traditional form: 趂

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 趁

  1. chèn
    • to avail oneself of
    • to take advantage of
  2. chèn Traditional 趂
    • old variant of 趁[chen4]

Radical and structure

趁
Radical 走 (Kangxi radical 156) · 12 strokes · built from 走 and 㐱

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.

趁 in our stories

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  • 有一天，一个坏人趁后羿不在，来抢这包药。

    yǒu yì tiān yí gè huàirén chèn Hòu Yì bú zài lái qiǎng zhè bāo yào

    One day, while Hou Yi was away, a bad man came to steal the medicine.

    From the story Chang'e flies to the moon HSK 3

  • 半年前回家路上，他在赵大家借宿，赵大夫妻看上了他的银子，趁他睡着害了他，又把他的尸骨烧成灰，和在泥里做成了这个瓦盆。

    bàn nián qián huí jiā lù shàng tā zài Zhào Dà jiā jièsù Zhào Dà fūqī kàn shàng le tā de yínzi chèn tā shuìzháo hài le tā yòu bǎ tā de shīgǔ shāo chéng huī huò zài ní lǐ zuò chéng le zhè gè wǎpén

    Six months earlier, on his way home, he had stayed the night at Zhao Da's. Zhao Da and his wife coveted his silver and killed him in his sleep, then burned his remains to ash, mixed them into clay and made this basin.

    From the story The tale of the black basin HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 趁

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).