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Mythic Mandarin

挡 (dǎng): meaning and stroke order

挡 (dǎng) means to resist, to obstruct, to hinder, to keep off, to block (a blow), to get in the way of.

挡

Simplified
挡
Traditional
擋, 攩
Pinyin
dǎng · dàng

Stroke order of 挡

挡

  • dǎng to resist; to obstruct
  • dàng to arrange; to put in order
  • dǎng variant of 擋|挡[dang3]
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 擋

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 挡

  1. dǎng Traditional 擋
    • to resist
    • to obstruct
    • to hinder
    • to keep off
    • to block (a blow)
    • to get in the way of
    • cover
    • gear (e.g. in a car's transmission)
  2. dǎng Traditional 攩
    • variant of 擋|挡[dang3]
  3. dàng Traditional 擋
    • to arrange
    • to put in order

Radical and structure

挡
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 9 strokes · 扌 on the left, 当 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.

挡 in our stories

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  • 电话号码被一只小猫挡住了。

    diànhuà hàomǎ bèi yì zhī xiǎo māo dǎng zhù le

    The phone number is covered by a little cat.

    From the story Drawing legs on a snake HSK 3

Stories using 挡

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).