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澄 (chéng): meaning and stroke order

澄 (chéng) means clear, limpid, to clarify, to purify, variant of 澄, surname Cheng, (of liquid) to settle.

澄

Simplified
澄
Traditional
澄, 澂
Pinyin
chéng · dèng

Stroke order of 澄

澄

  • chéng variant of 澄[cheng2]
  • Chéng surname Cheng
  • chéng clear; limpid
  • 15 strokes
  • Traditional form: 澂

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 澄

  1. chéng
    • clear
    • limpid
    • to clarify
    • to purify
  2. chéng Traditional 澂
    • variant of 澄[cheng2]
  3. Chéng
    • surname Cheng
  4. dèng
    • (of liquid) to settle
    • to become clear

Radical and structure

澄
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 15 strokes · 氵 on the left, 登 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.

Words with 澄

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).