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Mythic Mandarin

关键 (guān jiàn): meaning and stroke order

关键 (guān jiàn) means crucial point, crux, 个, key, crucial, pivotal.

关键

Simplified
关键
Traditional
關鍵
Pinyin
guān jiàn

Stroke order of 关键

关

  • Guān surname Guan
  • guān mountain pass; to close; to shut; to turn off
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 關

Stroke by stroke

键

  • jiàn key (on a piano or computer keyboard); button (on a mouse or other device)
  • 13 strokes
  • Traditional form: 鍵

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 关键

  1. guān jiàn Traditional 關鍵
    • crucial point
    • crux
    • CL:個|个[ge4]
    • key
    • crucial
    • pivotal

Radicals of the characters

关
Radical 八 (Kangxi radical 12) · 6 strokes · 丷 on top, 天 below
键
Radical 钅 (Kangxi radical 167) in its simplified form · 13 strokes · 钅 on the left, 建 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.

关键 in our stories

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  • 在一次关键的董事会上，苗立联合投资人投票，让钟远离开了管理层。

    zài yí cì guānjiàn de dǒngshìhuì shàng Miáo Lì liánhé tóuzīrén tóupiào ràng Zhōng Yuǎn líkāi le guǎnlǐcéng

    At a crucial board meeting, Miao Li joined with the investors in a vote that removed Zhong Yuan from management.

    From the story The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 关键

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).