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Mythic Mandarin

反驳 (fǎn bó): meaning and stroke order

反驳 (fǎn bó) means to retort, to refute.

反驳

Simplified
反驳
Traditional
反駁
Pinyin
fǎn bó

Stroke order of 反驳

反

  • fǎn contrary; in reverse
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

驳

  • bó variegated; heterogeneous
  • bó variant of 駁|驳[bo2]
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 駁

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 反驳

  1. fǎn bó Traditional 反駁
    • to retort
    • to refute

Radicals of the characters

反
Radical 又 (Kangxi radical 29) · 4 strokes · built from 𠂆 and 又
驳
Radical 马 (Kangxi radical 187) in its simplified form · 7 strokes · 马 on the left, 爻 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.

反驳 in our stories

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  • 惠子马上反驳：“你又不是鱼，怎么知道鱼快乐呢？”

    Huìzǐ mǎshàng fǎnbó nǐ yòu bú shì yú zěnme zhīdao yú kuàilè ne

    Huizi retorted at once: "You're not a fish; how do you know the fish are happy?"

    From the story The happiness of fish HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 反驳

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).