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Mythic Mandarin

额 (é): meaning and stroke order

额 (é) means forehead, horizontal tablet or inscribed board, specified number or amount, variant of 额.

额

Simplified
额
Traditional
額, 頟
Pinyin
é

Stroke order of 额

额

  • é variant of 額|额[e2]
  • é forehead; horizontal tablet or inscribed board
  • 15 strokes
  • Traditional form: 頟

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 额

  1. é Traditional 額
    • forehead
    • horizontal tablet or inscribed board
    • specified number or amount
  2. é Traditional 頟
    • variant of 額|额[e2]

Radical and structure

额
Radical 页 (Kangxi radical 181) in its simplified form · 15 strokes · 客 on the left, 页 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 额

额 in our stories

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  • 他想起李白的诗：黄河三尺鲤，本在孟津居；点额不成龙，归来伴凡鱼。连李白这样的人，也把自己比作一条没有跳过龙门的鱼。

    tā xiǎngqǐ Lǐ Bái de shī Huáng Hé sān chǐ lǐ běn zài Mèngjīn jū diǎn é bù chéng lóng guīlái bàn fán yú lián Lǐ Bái zhèyàng de rén yě bǎ zìjǐ bǐzuò yì tiáo méiyǒu tiào guò Lóngmén de yú

    He recalled lines by Li Bai: "A three-foot carp of the Yellow River once lived at Mengjin; its forehead marked, it did not become a dragon, and came home to swim with common fish." Even a man like Li Bai had compared himself to a carp that failed to leap the gate.

    From the story The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 额

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).