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Mythic Mandarin

锤子 (chuí zi): meaning and stroke order

锤子 (chuí zi) means hammer, CL:把.

锤子

Simplified
锤子
Traditional
錘子
Pinyin
chuí zi

Stroke order of 锤子

锤

  • chuí hammer; to hammer into shape
  • chuí variant of 錘|锤[chui2]
  • 13 strokes
  • Traditional form: 錘

Stroke by stroke

子

  • zǐ son; child
  • zi noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 锤子

  1. chuí zi Traditional 錘子
    • hammer
    • CL:把[ba3]

Radicals of the characters

锤
Radical 钅 (Kangxi radical 167) in its simplified form · 13 strokes · 钅 on the left, 垂 on the right
子
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 3 strokes · built from 了 and 一

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.

锤子 in our stories

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  • 老杜坐在一把小马扎上，手里的锤子敲得又快又稳。

    lǎo Dù zuò zài yì bǎ xiǎo mǎzhá shàng shǒu lǐ de chuízi qiāo de yòu kuài yòu wěn

    Old Du sat on a little folding stool, his hammer tapping fast and steady.

    From the story Old Du on the corner HSK 6

Stories using 锤子

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).