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Mythic Mandarin

广场 (guǎng chǎng): meaning and stroke order

广场 (guǎng chǎng) means public square; plaza.

广场

Simplified
广场
Traditional
廣場
Pinyin
guǎng chǎng

Stroke order of 广场

广

  • yǎn "house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc
  • Guǎng surname Guang
  • guǎng wide; numerous
  • 3 strokes
  • Traditional form: 廣

Stroke by stroke

场

  • cháng threshing floor; classifier for events and happenings: spell, episode, bout
  • chǎng large place used for a specific purpose; stage
  • cháng variant of 場|场[chang2]
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 場

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 广场

  1. guǎng chǎng Traditional 廣場
    • public square; plaza

Radicals of the characters

广
Radical 广 (Kangxi radical 53) · 3 strokes · 丶 on top, 厂 below
场
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 6 strokes · 土 on the left, 𠃓 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.

广场 in our stories

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  • 官员想了一夜，第二天下了一道奇怪的命令：全村的男人，必须在中午以前把自己家的镰刀带到广场上来，谁不来，谁就是凶手。

    guānyuán xiǎng le yí yè dì-èr tiān xià le yí dào qíguài de mìnglìng quáncūn de nánrén bìxū zài zhōngwǔ yǐqián bǎ zìjǐ jiā de liándāo dài dào guǎngchǎng shàng lái shéi bù lái shéi jiù shì xiōngshǒu

    The official thought all night, and the next day issued a strange order: every man in the village must bring his household's sickle to the square before noon; whoever failed to come would be taken for the killer.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 广场

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).