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Mythic Mandarin

地图 (dì tú): meaning and stroke order

地图 (dì tú) means map, 张,本.

地图

Simplified
地图
Traditional
地圖
Pinyin
dì tú

Stroke order of 地图

地

  • de -ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
  • dì earth; ground
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

图

  • tú diagram; picture
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 圖

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 地图

  1. dì tú Traditional 地圖
    • map
    • CL:張|张[zhang1],本[ben3]

Radicals of the characters

地
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 6 strokes · 土 on the left, 也 on the right
图
Radical 囗 (Kangxi radical 31) · 8 strokes · built from 囗 and 冬

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.

地图 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 回奥斯陆的飞机上，她忽然想通了：家不一定只能有一个。一个家在地图上，另一个，在你用心经营的每一天里。

    huí Àosīlù de fēijī shàng tā hūrán xiǎngtōng le jiā bù yídìng zhǐ néng yǒu yí gè yí gè jiā zài dìtú shàng lìng yí gè zài nǐ yòngxīn jīngyíng de měi yì tiān lǐ

    On the plane back to Oslo it suddenly became clear to her: you don't have to have only one home. One is on the map; the other lives in every day you put your heart into.

    From the story Two homes HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 地图

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).