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Mythic Mandarin

感激 (gǎn jī): meaning and stroke order

感激 (gǎn jī) means to be grateful, to appreciate, thankful.

感激

Simplified
感激
Traditional
感激 (same form)
Pinyin
gǎn jī

Stroke order of 感激

感

  • gǎn to feel; to move
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

激

  • jī to arouse; to incite
  • 16 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 感激

  1. gǎn jī
    • to be grateful
    • to appreciate
    • thankful

Radicals of the characters

感
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 13 strokes · 咸 on top, 心 below
激
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 16 strokes · 氵 on the left, 敫 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.

感激 in our stories

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  • 洪水终于退了，百姓能重新种地、盖房子。人们感激他，后来推举他做了首领。

    hóngshuǐ zhōngyú tuì le bǎixìng néng chóngxīn zhòng dì gài fángzi rénmen gǎnjī tā hòulái tuījǔ tā zuò le shǒulǐng

    At last the flood receded, and people could farm and build again. They were so grateful that they later chose him as their leader.

    From the story Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6

Stories using 感激

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).