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创造 (chuàng zào): meaning and stroke order

创造 (chuàng zào) means to create, to bring about, to produce, to set (a record).

创造

Simplified
创造
Traditional
創造
Pinyin
chuàng zào

Stroke order of 创造

创

  • chuàng variant of 創|创[chuang4]
  • chuàng variant of 創|创[chuang4]
  • chuāng (bound form) a wound; to wound
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 剏

Stroke by stroke

造

  • zào to make; to build
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 创造

  1. chuàng zào Traditional 創造
    • to create
    • to bring about
    • to produce
    • to set (a record)

Radicals of the characters

创
Radical 刀 (Kangxi radical 18) · 6 strokes · 仓 on the left, 刂 on the right
造
Radical 辵 (Kangxi radical 162) · 11 strokes · built from 辶 and 告

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.

创造 in our stories

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  • 看到自己亲手创造的人类在灾难中挣扎，女神女娲心如刀割。

    kàndào zìjǐ qīnshǒu chuàngzào de rénlèi zài zāinàn zhōng zhēngzhá nǚshén Nǚwā xīn rú dāo gē

    Seeing the humans she had made with her own hands struggling in the disaster, the goddess Nüwa felt as if a knife were cutting her heart.

    From the story Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 创造

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).