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Mythic Mandarin

动物 (dòng wù): meaning and stroke order

动物 (dòng wù) means animal, 只,群个.

动物

Simplified
动物
Traditional
動物
Pinyin
dòng wù

Stroke order of 动物

动

  • dòng (of sth) to move; to set in movement
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 動

Stroke by stroke

物

  • wù (bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 动物

  1. dòng wù Traditional 動物
    • animal
    • CL:隻|只[zhi1],群[qun2],個|个[ge4]

Radicals of the characters

动
Radical 力 (Kangxi radical 19) · 6 strokes · 云 on the left, 力 on the right
物
Radical 牛 (Kangxi radical 93) · 8 strokes · 牜 on the left, 勿 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.

动物 in our stories

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  • 可是他觉得还不够漂亮，就加了很多花、星星和小动物。

    kěshì tā juéde hái bú gòu piàoliang jiù jiā le hěn duō huā xīngxing hé xiǎo dòngwù

    But he thinks it isn't pretty enough, so he adds lots of flowers, stars and little animals.

    From the story Drawing legs on a snake HSK 3

Stories using 动物

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).