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端午节 (Duān wǔ jié): meaning and stroke order

端午节 (Duān wǔ jié) means Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month).

端午节

Simplified
端午节
Traditional
端午節
Pinyin
Duān wǔ jié

Stroke order of 端午节

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

午

  • wǔ 7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of the Horse; ancient Chinese compass point: 180° (south)
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

节

  • jiē see 節骨眼|节骨眼[jie1 gu5 yan3]
  • jié joint; node; (bound form) section; segment
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 節

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 端午节

  1. Duān wǔ jié Traditional 端午節
    • Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month)

Radicals of the characters

端
Radical 立 (Kangxi radical 117) · 14 strokes · 立 on the left, 耑 on the right
午
Radical 十 (Kangxi radical 24) · 4 strokes · 𠂉 on top, 十 below
节
Radical 艸 (Kangxi radical 140) · 6 strokes

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.

端午节 in our stories

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  • 曾琳在德国汉堡读书，今年端午节，学校的中国学生会想办一次龙舟比赛。

    Zēng Lín zài Déguó Hànbǎo dúshū jīnnián Duānwǔjié xuéxiào de Zhōngguó xuéshenghuì xiǎng bàn yí cì lóngzhōu bǐsài

    Zeng Lin was studying in Hamburg, Germany. This year, for the Dragon Boat Festival, the Chinese students' association wanted to hold a dragon boat race.

    From the story Dragon boats in Hamburg HSK 5

  • 许仙半信半疑。法海教他：端午节那天，让妻子喝一杯雄黄酒，是人是妖，一试就知道。

    Xǔ Xiān bànxìnbànyí Fǎhǎi jiāo tā Duānwǔjié nà tiān ràng qīzi hē yì bēi xiónghuángjiǔ shì rén shì yāo yí shì jiù zhīdao

    Xu Xian half believed him. Fahai told him: at the Dragon Boat Festival, have your wife drink a cup of realgar wine; whether she is human or spirit, one try will show.

    From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 端午节

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).