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Mythic Mandarin

攒 (cuán): meaning and stroke order

攒 (cuán) means to bring together, to collect, to hoard, to accumulate, to save.

攒

Simplified
攒
Traditional
攢
Pinyin
cuán · zǎn

Stroke order of 攒

攒

  • cuán to bring together
  • zǎn to collect; to hoard
  • 19 strokes
  • Traditional form: 攢

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 攒

  1. cuán Traditional 攢
    • to bring together
  2. zǎn Traditional 攢
    • to collect
    • to hoard
    • to accumulate
    • to save

Radical and structure

攒
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 19 strokes · 扌 on the left, 赞 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.

攒 in our stories

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  • 为了登上珠穆朗玛峰，岳峰准备了整整七年：攒钱、训练、爬了十几座六千米以上的雪山。

    wèile dēngshàng Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng Yuè Fēng zhǔnbèi le zhěngzhěng qī nián zǎn qián xùnliàn pá le shíjǐ zuò liùqiān mǐ yǐshàng de xuěshān

    To climb Mount Everest, Yue Feng prepared for seven whole years: saving money, training and climbing more than a dozen snow peaks over six thousand metres.

    From the story Two hundred metres from the summit HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 攒

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).