古代 (gǔ dài): meaning and stroke order
古代 (gǔ dài) means ancient times.
古代
- Simplified
- 古代
- Traditional
- 古代 (same form)
- Pinyin
- gǔ dài
Audio preview uses your device’s Chinese voice. It is not a recording.
Stroke order of 古代
古
- Gǔ surname Gu
- gǔ ancient; old
- 5 strokes
Stroke by stroke
代
- dài to be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute; generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon
- 5 strokes
Stroke by stroke
Practise the whole word
Write each character in its box. A hint appears after a few wrong strokes.
Meaning of 古代
-
gǔ dài
- ancient times
Radicals of the characters
- 古
- Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 5 strokes · 十 on top, 口 below
- 代
- Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 5 strokes · 亻 on the left, 弋 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).