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Mythic Mandarin

发明 (fā míng): meaning and stroke order

发明 (fā míng) means to invent, an invention, 个.

发明

Simplified
发明
Traditional
發明
Pinyin
fā míng

Stroke order of 发明

发

  • fā to send out; to show (one's feeling)
  • fà hair; Taiwan pr. [fa3]
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 發

Stroke by stroke

明

  • Míng Ming Dynasty (1368–1644); surname Ming
  • míng bright; opposite: dark 暗[an4]
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 发明

  1. fā míng Traditional 發明
    • to invent
    • an invention
    • CL:個|个[ge4]

Radicals of the characters

发
Radical 又 (Kangxi radical 29) · 5 strokes
明
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 8 strokes · 日 on the left, 月 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.

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).