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Mythic Mandarin

存 (cún): meaning and stroke order

存 (cún) means to exist, to deposit, to store, to keep, to survive.

存

Simplified
存
Traditional
存 (same form)
Pinyin
cún

Stroke order of 存

存

  • cún to exist; to deposit
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 存

  1. cún
    • to exist
    • to deposit
    • to store
    • to keep
    • to survive

Radical and structure

存
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 6 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.

Words with 存

存 in our stories

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  • 那两个星期,潘杰每天只睡五个小时,每写完一页,就存到三个地方。

    nà liǎng gè xīngqī Pān Jié měitiān zhǐ shuì wǔ gè xiǎoshí měi xiě wán yí yè jiù cún dào sān gè dìfang

    For those two weeks Pan Jie slept only five hours a night, and every time he finished a page he saved it in three places.

    From the story Mending the fold after the sheep is lost HSK 5

Stories using 存

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).