割 (gē): meaning and stroke order
割 (gē) means to cut, to cut apart.
割
- Simplified
- 割
- Traditional
- 割 (same form)
- Pinyin
- gē
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Stroke order of 割
割
- gē to cut; to cut apart
- 12 strokes
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Meaning of 割
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gē
- to cut
- to cut apart
Radical and structure
- 割
- Radical 刀 (Kangxi radical 18) · 12 strokes · 害 on the left, 刂 on the right
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Words with 割
- 心如刀割 xīn rú dāo gē to feel as if having one's heart cut out (idiom); to be torn with grief
割 in our stories
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随从介子推悄悄走到一边，从自己的腿上割下一块肉，煮成汤端给了他。
suícóng Jiè Zǐtuī qiāoqiāo zǒu dào yìbiān cóng zìjǐ de tuǐ shàng gē xià yí kuài ròu zhǔ chéng tāng duān gěi le tā
His follower Jie Zitui quietly stepped aside, cut a piece of flesh from his own thigh, and brought it to him boiled into a soup.
From the story Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7
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说完，他割下自己的肉还给母亲，剔出自己的骨头还给父亲，以这样惨烈的方式了结了这场恩怨。
shuōwán tā gē xià zìjǐ de ròu huángěi mǔqīn tī chū zìjǐ de gǔtou huángěi fùqīn yǐ zhèyàng cǎnliè de fāngshì liǎojié le zhè cháng ēnyuàn
With that he cut off his flesh to return it to his mother and cut out his bones to return them to his father, ending the feud in this terrible way.
From the story Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8
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太阳越往西走，夸父离它越近，他甚至能感到阳光像刀子一样割着他的皮肤。
tàiyáng yuè wǎng xī zǒu Kuāfù lí tā yuè jìn tā shènzhì néng gǎndào yángguāng xiàng dāozi yíyàng gē zhe tā de pífū
The further west the sun went, the closer Kuafu came, until he could feel the sunlight cutting his skin like knives.
From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Stories using 割
- Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7
- Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8
- Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9
- The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9
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).