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村民 (cūn mín): meaning and stroke order

村民 (cūn mín) means villager.

村民

Simplified
村民
Traditional
村民 (same form)
Pinyin
cūn mín

Stroke order of 村民

村

  • cūn village; (dialect) to scold
  • cūn variant of 村[cun1]
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 邨

Stroke by stroke

民

  • Mín surname Min
  • mín (bound form) the people; inhabitants of a country
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 村民

  1. cūn mín
    • villager

Radicals of the characters

村
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 7 strokes · 木 on the left, 寸 on the right
民
Radical 氏 (Kangxi radical 83) · 5 strokes

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.

村民 in our stories

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  • 中午，七八十把镰刀在广场上排成一排，刀刃朝上，在太阳下闪闪发光。村民们围在四周，谁也不明白官员想做什么。

    zhōngwǔ qībāshí bǎ liándāo zài guǎngchǎng shàng pái chéng yì pái dāorèn cháo shàng zài tàiyáng xià shǎnshǎnfāguāng cūnmín men wéi zài sìzhōu shéi yě bù míngbai guānyuán xiǎng zuò shénme

    At noon seventy or eighty sickles lay in a row on the square, blades up, glittering in the sun. The villagers gathered round, none of them understanding what the official intended.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 村民

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).