处 (chù): meaning and stroke order
处 (chù) means (bound form) place; locality, (bound form) part; aspect.
处
- Simplified
- 处
- Traditional
- 處
- Pinyin
- chù · chǔ
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Stroke order of 处
处
- chǔ to reside; to live
- chù (bound form) place; locality; (bound form) part; aspect
- 5 strokes
- Traditional form: 處
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Meaning of 处
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chù
Traditional 處
- (bound form) place; locality
- (bound form) part; aspect
- (bound form) office; department; bureau
- classifier for locations: spot, point
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chǔ
Traditional 處
- to reside
- to live
- to dwell
- to be in
- to be situated at
- to stay
- to get along with
- to be in a position of
- to deal with
- to discipline
- to punish
Radical and structure
- 处
- Radical 夂 (Kangxi radical 34) · 5 strokes · built from 夂 and 卜
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 处
- 四处 sì chù all over the place; everywhere and all directions
- 无处 wú chù nowhere
- 处死 chǔ sǐ an execution; to put sb to death
- 远处 yuǎn chù distant place
- 到处 dào chù everywhere
- 好处 hǎo chǔ easy to get along with
处 in our stories
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大禹没有急着动手，而是走遍了大江大河，把每一处的地形都仔细地记了下来。
Dà Yǔ méiyǒu jízhe dòngshǒu érshì zǒubiàn le dà jiāng dà hé bǎ měi yí chù de dìxíng dōu zǐxì de jì le xiàlai
Yu did not rush in. Instead he travelled every great river and carefully recorded the lie of the land at every point.
From the story Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6
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追不上的梦想，未必就是白追的。这，或许正是这个古老神话最动人之处。
zhuī bú shàng de mèngxiǎng wèibì jiù shì bái zhuī de zhè huòxǔ zhèngshì zhè gè gǔlǎo shénhuà zuì dòngrén zhī chù
A dream you cannot catch up with is not necessarily chased in vain. This, perhaps, is what is most moving about this ancient myth.
From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9
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书中记着这样一个案子。某天清晨，有人在村外的小路旁发现了一具尸体，身上有十几处伤口。
shū zhōng jì zhe zhèyàng yí gè ànzi mǒu tiān qīngchén yǒu rén zài cūn wài de xiǎolù páng fāxiàn le yí jù shītǐ shēnshang yǒu shíjǐ chù shāngkǒu
The book records a case like this. Early one morning someone found a body beside a path outside a village, with more than ten wounds on it.
From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Stories using 处
- Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6
- Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9
- The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9
- Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9
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).