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讽刺 (fěng cì): meaning and stroke order

讽刺 (fěng cì) means to satirize, to mock, irony, satire, sarcasm.

讽刺

Simplified
讽刺
Traditional
諷刺
Pinyin
fěng cì

Stroke order of 讽刺

讽

  • fěng to satirize; to mock
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 諷

Stroke by stroke

刺

  • cī (onom.) whoosh
  • cì thorn; sting
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 讽刺

  1. fěng cì Traditional 諷刺
    • to satirize
    • to mock
    • irony
    • satire
    • sarcasm

Radicals of the characters

讽
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 6 strokes · 讠 on the left, 风 on the right
刺
Radical 刀 (Kangxi radical 18) · 8 strokes · 朿 on the left, 刂 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.

讽刺 in our stories

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  • 后来，人们常用“夸父逐日”比喻人有远大的志向，也有人用它讽刺不自量力的人。

    hòulái rénmen cháng yòng kuāfùzhúrì bǐyù rén yǒu yuǎndà de zhìxiàng yě yǒu rén yòng tā fěngcì búzìliànglì de rén

    Later people used "Kuafu chases the sun" as a figure for someone with lofty aspirations, while others used it to mock those who overrate themselves.

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

  • 北宋的时候，大文学家苏轼因为写诗讽刺朝廷的新法，被人告发，关进了监狱。

    Běi Sòng de shíhou dà wénxuéjiā Sū Shì yīnwèi xiě shī fěngcì cháotíng de xīnfǎ bèi rén gàofā guān jìn le jiānyù

    In the Northern Song the great writer Su Shi was denounced for writing poems that mocked the court's new laws, and was thrown into prison.

    From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 讽刺

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).