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Mythic Mandarin

村子 (cūn zi): meaning and stroke order

村子 (cūn zi) means village.

村子

Simplified
村子
Traditional
村子 (same form)
Pinyin
cūn zi

Stroke order of 村子

村

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

Stroke by stroke

子

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 村子

  1. cūn zi
    • village

Radicals of the characters

村
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 7 strokes · 木 on the left, 寸 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.

村子 in our stories

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  • 很多年以前，一个村子两个月没有下雨。

    hěn duō nián yǐqián yí gè cūnzi liǎng gè yuè méiyǒu xiàyǔ

    Many years ago a village had no rain for two months.

    From the story The little dragon and the rain HSK 2

  • 这个村子家家户户种地，几乎每家都有镰刀，要从几百把镰刀中找出凶器，简直是大海捞针。

    zhè gè cūnzi jiājiāhùhù zhòng dì jīhū měi jiā dōu yǒu liándāo yào cóng jǐbǎi bǎ liándāo zhōng zhǎo chū xiōngqì jiǎnzhí shì dàhǎilāozhēn

    Every household in the village farmed and almost every family owned a sickle; finding the murder weapon among several hundred sickles was like looking for a needle in the sea.

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

Stories using 村子

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).