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Mythic Mandarin

仇 (chóu): meaning and stroke order

仇 (chóu) means hatred, animosity, enmity, foe, enemy.

仇

Simplified
仇
Traditional
仇, 讎, 讐
Pinyin
chóu · qiú

Stroke order of 仇

仇

  • Qiú surname Qiu
  • chóu hatred; animosity
  • qiú spouse; companion
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 讎

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 仇

  1. chóu
    • hatred
    • animosity
    • enmity
    • foe
    • enemy
    • to feel animosity toward (the wealthy, foreigners etc)
  2. chóu Traditional 讎
    • variant of 仇[chou2]
  3. chóu Traditional 讐
    • variant of 仇[chou2]
  4. qiú
    • spouse
    • companion
  5. Qiú
    • surname Qiu

Radical and structure

仇
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 4 strokes · 亻 on the left, 九 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.

仇 in our stories

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  • 他又问了死者的妻子。妻子说，丈夫为人老实，从不跟人结仇，只是前几天，有个邻居来借钱，被他拒绝了。

    tā yòu wèn le sǐzhě de qīzi qīzi shuō zhàngfu wéirén lǎoshi cóng bù gēn rén jié chóu zhǐshì qián jǐ tiān yǒu gè línjū lái jiè qián bèi tā jùjué le

    He also questioned the dead man's wife. She said her husband was honest and had never made an enemy; only a few days before, a neighbour had come to borrow money and been refused.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 仇

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).