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穿 (chuān): meaning and stroke order

穿 (chuān) means to wear, to put on, to dress, to bore through, to pierce, to perforate, to penetrate.

穿

Simplified
穿
Traditional
穿 (same form)
Pinyin
chuān

Stroke order of 穿

穿

  • chuān to wear; to put on
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 穿

  1. chuān
    • to wear
    • to put on
    • to dress
    • to bore through
    • to pierce
    • to perforate
    • to penetrate
    • to pass through
    • to thread

Radical and structure

穿
Radical 穴 (Kangxi radical 116) · 9 strokes · 穴 on top, 牙 below

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 穿

穿 in our stories

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  • 人们都穿红色的衣服。

    rénmen dōu chuān hóngsè de yīfu

    Everyone wore red clothes.

    From the story The story of Nian HSK 1

  • 原来她是一位小提琴老师，箱子里有她晚上演出要穿的衣服。

    yuánlái tā shì yí wèi xiǎotíqín lǎoshī xiāngzi lǐ yǒu tā wǎnshang yǎnchū yào chuān de yīfu

    She was a violin teacher, and her suitcase held the clothes she had to wear for a performance that evening.

    From the story The identical suitcase HSK 4

  • 子涵没有争吵。妈妈生日那天，她端出了一个自己做的三层蛋糕，上面用奶油画着妈妈年轻时穿白大褂的样子。

    Zǐhán méiyǒu zhēngchǎo māma shēngrì nà tiān tā duān chū le yí gè zìjǐ zuò de sān céng dàngāo shàngmiàn yòng nǎiyóu huà zhe māma niánqīng shí chuān báidàguà de yàngzi

    Zihan didn't argue. On her mother's birthday she brought out a three-tier cake she had made, with her mother as a young doctor in a white coat piped on top in cream.

    From the story The three-tier cake HSK 5

Stories using 穿

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).