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Mythic Mandarin

澄清 (chéng qīng): meaning and stroke order

澄清 (chéng qīng) means clear (of liquid), limpid, to clarify, to make sth clear, to be clear (about the facts).

澄清

Simplified
澄清
Traditional
澄清 (same form)
Pinyin
chéng qīng · dèng qīng

Stroke order of 澄清

澄

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

Stroke by stroke

清

  • Qīng Qing (Wade-Giles: Ch'ing) dynasty of China (1644–1911); surname Qing
  • qīng (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 澄清

  1. chéng qīng
    • clear (of liquid)
    • limpid
    • to clarify
    • to make sth clear
    • to be clear (about the facts)
  2. dèng qīng
    • to settle (of liquid)
    • to become clear (by precipitation of impurities)
    • precipitate (chemistry)
    • to put in order
    • to quell disturbances

Radicals of the characters

澄
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 15 strokes · 氵 on the left, 登 on the right
清
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 11 strokes · 氵 on the left, 青 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).