挫 (cuò): meaning and stroke order
挫 (cuò) means obstructed, to fail, to oppress, to repress, to lower the tone, to bend back, to dampen.
挫
- Simplified
- 挫
- Traditional
- 挫 (same form)
- Pinyin
- cuò
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Stroke order of 挫
挫
- cuò obstructed; to fail
- 10 strokes
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Meaning of 挫
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cuò
- obstructed
- to fail
- to oppress
- to repress
- to lower the tone
- to bend back
- to dampen
Radical and structure
- 挫
- Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 10 strokes · 扌 on the left, 坐 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.
Words with 挫
- 挫折 cuò zhé setback; reverse
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).