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规矩 (guī ju): meaning and stroke order

规矩 (guī ju) means lit. compass and set square, fig. established standard, rule, customs, practices.

规矩

Simplified
规矩
Traditional
規矩
Pinyin
guī ju

Stroke order of 规矩

规

  • guī variant of 規|规[gui1]
  • guī compass; a rule
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 槼

Stroke by stroke

矩

  • jǔ variant of 矩[ju3]
  • jǔ carpenter's square; rule
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 榘

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 规矩

  1. guī ju Traditional 規矩
    • lit. compass and set square
    • fig. established standard
    • rule
    • customs
    • practices
    • fig. upright and honest
    • well-behaved

Radicals of the characters

规
Radical 见 (Kangxi radical 147) in its simplified form · 8 strokes · 夫 on the left, 见 on the right
矩
Radical 矢 (Kangxi radical 111) · 10 strokes · 矢 on the left, 巨 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.

规矩 in our stories

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  • 她爱上了一个穷书生，不顾天上的规矩，跟他结了婚，还生了一个儿子，叫沉香。

    tā ài shàng le yí gè qióng shūshēng búgù tiānshàng de guīju gēn tā jié le hūn hái shēng le yí gè érzi jiào Chénxiāng

    She fell in love with a poor scholar and, ignoring the rules of heaven, married him and had a son called Chenxiang.

    From the story Splitting the mountain to save his mother HSK 5

Stories using 规矩

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).