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躲藏 (duǒ cáng): meaning and stroke order

躲藏 (duǒ cáng) means to conceal oneself, to go into hiding, to take cover.

躲藏

Simplified
躲藏
Traditional
躲藏 (same form)
Pinyin
duǒ cáng

Stroke order of 躲藏

躲

  • duǒ to hide; to dodge
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

藏

  • Zàng Tibet; abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 西藏[Xi1 zang4]
  • cáng to conceal; to hide away
  • zàng storehouse; depository
  • 17 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 躲藏

  1. duǒ cáng
    • to conceal oneself
    • to go into hiding
    • to take cover

Radicals of the characters

躲
Radical 身 (Kangxi radical 158) · 13 strokes · 身 on the left, 朵 on the right
藏
Radical 艸 (Kangxi radical 140) · 18 strokes · 艹 on top, 臧 below

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.

躲藏 in our stories

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  • 那一年，天下大旱，太阳像一团火挂在天上，河水干涸，庄稼枯死，人们热得无处躲藏。

    nà yì nián tiānxià dàhàn tàiyáng xiàng yì tuán huǒ guà zài tiān shàng héshuǐ gānhé zhuāngjia kūsǐ rénmen rè de wúchù duǒcáng

    That year a great drought struck the world: the sun hung in the sky like a ball of fire, the rivers dried up, the crops withered, and people had nowhere to hide from the heat.

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 躲藏

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).