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Mythic Mandarin

出现 (chū xiàn): meaning and stroke order

出现 (chū xiàn) means to appear, to arise, to emerge, to show up.

出现

Simplified
出现
Traditional
出現
Pinyin
chū xiàn

Stroke order of 出现

出

  • chū to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur
  • chū variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 齣

Stroke by stroke

现

  • xiàn to appear; present
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 現

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 出现

  1. chū xiàn Traditional 出現
    • to appear
    • to arise
    • to emerge
    • to show up

Radicals of the characters

出
Radical 凵 (Kangxi radical 17) · 5 strokes · 屮 on top, 凵 below
现
Radical 玉 (Kangxi radical 96) · 8 strokes · 𤣩 on the left, 见 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.

出现 in our stories

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  • 雨停了以后,山下出现了一道彩虹。

    yǔ tíng le yǐhòu shān xià chūxiàn le yí dào cǎihóng

    When the rain stopped, a rainbow appeared below the mountain.

    From the story No umbrella HSK 3

  • 人们相信,只有世界太平、有伟大的人出生的时候,麒麟才会出现。

    rénmen xiāngxìn zhǐyǒu shìjiè tàipíng yǒu wěidà de rén chūshēng de shíhou qílín cái huì chūxiàn

    People believed that the qilin appeared only when the world was at peace and a great person was born.

    From the story The qilin HSK 4

  • 孙悟空驾着筋斗云去远处找吃的。他刚走,一个提着饭篮的年轻姑娘就出现在了路上。

    Sūn Wùkōng jià zhe jīndǒuyún qù yuǎnchù zhǎo chī de tā gāng zǒu yí gè tí zhe fànlán de niánqīng gūniang jiù chūxiàn zài le lù shàng

    Sun Wukong rode his somersault cloud far off to look for food. No sooner had he gone than a young woman carrying a basket of food appeared on the path.

    From the story Monkey strikes the White Bone Demon three times HSK 6

Stories using 出现

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).