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Mythic Mandarin

吃惊 (chī jīng): meaning and stroke order

吃惊 (chī jīng) means to be startled, to be shocked, to be amazed.

吃惊

Simplified
吃惊
Traditional
吃驚
Pinyin
chī jīng

Stroke order of 吃惊

吃

  • chī to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
  • chī variant of 吃[chi1]
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 喫

Stroke by stroke

惊

  • jīng to startle; to be frightened
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 驚

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 吃惊

  1. chī jīng Traditional 吃驚
    • to be startled
    • to be shocked
    • to be amazed

Radicals of the characters

吃
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 6 strokes · 口 on the left, 乞 on the right
惊
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 11 strokes · 忄 on the left, 京 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.

吃惊 in our stories

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  • 更让人吃惊的是，就在沉船前一个月，公司给这条旧船买了一份高额保险。

    gèng ràng rén chījīng de shì jiù zài chénchuán qián yí gè yuè gōngsī gěi zhè tiáo jiù chuán mǎi le yí fèn gāo'é bǎoxiǎn

    Even more shocking, just a month before the sinking, the company had bought a large insurance policy on this old ship.

    From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 吃惊

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).