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Mythic Mandarin

蛋糕 (dàn gāo): meaning and stroke order

蛋糕 (dàn gāo) means cake, 块个.

蛋糕

Simplified
蛋糕
Traditional
蛋糕 (same form)
Pinyin
dàn gāo

Stroke order of 蛋糕

蛋

  • Dàn variant of 蜑[Dan4]
  • dàn egg; CL:個|个[ge4],打[da2]
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

糕

  • gāo cake
  • gāo variant of 糕[gao1]
  • 16 strokes
  • Traditional form: 餻

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 蛋糕

  1. dàn gāo
    • cake
    • CL:塊|块[kuai4],個|个[ge4]

Radicals of the characters

蛋
Radical 虫 (Kangxi radical 142) · 11 strokes · 疋 on top, 虫 below
糕
Radical 米 (Kangxi radical 119) · 16 strokes · 米 on the left, 羔 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.

蛋糕 in our stories

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  • 也有一个大蛋糕！

    yě yǒu yí gè dà dàngāo

    There's a big cake too!

    From the story Happy birthday HSK 1

  • 她考上了医学院，成绩也不错，可是只有在厨房里做蛋糕的时候，她才觉得自己是真正快乐的。

    tā kǎo shàng le yīxuéyuàn chéngjì yě búcuò kěshì zhǐyǒu zài chúfáng lǐ zuò dàngāo de shíhou tā cái juéde zìjǐ shì zhēnzhèng kuàilè de

    She got into medical school and did well, but only when she was baking cakes in the kitchen did she feel truly happy.

    From the story The three-tier cake HSK 5

Stories using 蛋糕

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).