故 (gù): meaning and stroke order
故 (gù) means happening, instance, reason, cause, intentional, former, old, friend, therefore, hence.
故
- Simplified
- 故
- Traditional
- 故 (same form)
- Pinyin
- gù
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Stroke order of 故
故
- gù happening; instance
- 9 strokes
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Meaning of 故
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gù
- happening
- instance
- reason
- cause
- intentional
- former
- old
- friend
- therefore
- hence
- (of people) to die, dead
Radical and structure
- 故
- Radical 攴 (Kangxi radical 66) · 9 strokes · 古 on the left, 攵 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.
Words with 故
- 事故 shì gù accident; CL:樁|桩[zhuang1],起[qi3],次[ci4]
- 故事 gù shì old practice
- 故意 gù yì deliberately; on purpose
- 一见如故 yī jiàn rú gù familiarity at first sight
- 故乡 gù xiāng home; homeland
- 缘故 yuán gù reason; cause
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).