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端 (duān): meaning and stroke order

端 (duān) means (bound form) tip; end; extremity, (bound form) aspect; facet, (bound form) upright; proper.

端

Simplified
端
Traditional
端, 耑
Pinyin
duān

Stroke order of 端

端

  • duān (bound form) tip; end; extremity; (bound form) aspect; facet
  • duān old variant of 端[duan1]; start
  • 14 strokes
  • Traditional form: 耑

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 端

  1. duān
    • (bound form) tip; end; extremity
    • (bound form) aspect; facet
    • (bound form) upright; proper
    • to hold sth level with both hands; to carry
    • to eliminate; to wipe out
  2. duān Traditional 耑
    • old variant of 端[duan1]
    • start
    • origin

Radical and structure

端
Radical 立 (Kangxi radical 117) · 14 strokes · 立 on the left, 耑 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.

Words with 端

端 in our stories

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  • 子涵没有争吵。妈妈生日那天，她端出了一个自己做的三层蛋糕，上面用奶油画着妈妈年轻时穿白大褂的样子。

    Zǐhán méiyǒu zhēngchǎo māma shēngrì nà tiān tā duān chū le yí gè zìjǐ zuò de sān céng dàngāo shàngmiàn yòng nǎiyóu huà zhe māma niánqīng shí chuān báidàguà de yàngzi

    Zihan didn't argue. On her mother's birthday she brought out a three-tier cake she had made, with her mother as a young doctor in a white coat piped on top in cream.

    From the story The three-tier cake HSK 5

  • 半夜，他被一阵轻轻的脚步声吵醒，一个穿白衣服的姑娘端着一杯茶站在他面前。

    bànyè tā bèi yí zhèn qīngqīng de jiǎobùshēng chǎoxǐng yí gè chuān bái yīfu de gūniang duān zhe yì bēi chá zhàn zài tā miànqián

    At midnight he was woken by soft footsteps: a girl in white stood before him holding a cup of tea.

    From the story The girl in the painting HSK 5

  • 午饭的时候，苏菲端着一碗汤圆走到奶奶面前，用刚学的温州话说了一句：“阿婆，吃汤圆，甜甜蜜蜜。”

    wǔfàn de shíhou Sūfēi duān zhe yì wǎn tāngyuán zǒu dào nǎinai miànqián yòng gāng xué de Wēnzhōuhuà shuō le yí jù āpó chī tāngyuán tiántián-mìmì

    At lunch Sophie carried a bowl of dumplings to Grandma and said in her newly learned Wenzhou dialect, "Granny, have some tangyuan. Sweet as honey."

    From the story An old bracelet HSK 6

Stories using 端

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).