东 (dōng): meaning and stroke order

东 in our stories

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• 山被撞断了，天空向西北倾斜，日月星辰都滑向了那一边；大地则向东南塌陷，江河的水都向东流去。

  shān bèi zhuàng duàn le tiānkōng xiàng xīběi qīngxié rì yuè xīngchén dōu huá xiàng le nà yìbiān dàdì zé xiàng dōngnán tāxiàn jiānghé de shuǐ dōu xiàng dōng liú qù

  The mountain broke. The sky tilted towards the north-west and the sun, moon and stars slid that way, while the earth sank towards the south-east and all the rivers began to flow east.

  From the story Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7

• 他妈妈在城东开了三十年的拉面馆，听到这个消息，手里的面“啪”的一声掉在了案板上。

  tā māma zài chéng dōng kāi le sānshí nián de lāmiànguǎn tīngdào zhè gè xiāoxi shǒu lǐ de miàn pā de yì shēng diào zài le ànbǎn shàng

  His mother had run a hand-pulled noodle shop on the east side of town for thirty years; when she heard the news, the dough in her hands dropped onto the board with a slap.

  From the story Pulling noodles is a workout too HSK 7–9 · Level 8

• 一家二十多口人要吃饭，他只好向官府要了一块荒地，自己开荒种地。因为这块地在城东的山坡上，他就给自己起了个号，叫“东坡居士”。

  yìjiā èrshí duō kǒu rén yào chīfàn tā zhǐhǎo xiàng guānfǔ yào le yí kuài huāngdì zìjǐ kāihuāng zhòng dì yīnwèi zhè kuài dì zài chéng dōng de shānpō shàng tā jiù gěi zìjǐ qǐ le gè hào jiào Dōngpō jūshì

  With a household of over twenty to feed, he had to ask the authorities for a plot of waste land and clear it to farm himself. Because it lay on a hillside east of the town, he gave himself a name: "the Lay Buddhist of the Eastern Slope", Dongpo.

  From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9