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Mythic Mandarin

贵 (Guì): meaning and stroke order

贵 (Guì) means abbr. for Guizhou Province 贵州, expensive, (bound form) highly valued; precious.

贵

Simplified
贵
Traditional
貴
Pinyin
Guì

Stroke order of 贵

贵

  • Guì abbr. for Guizhou Province 貴州|贵州[Gui4 zhou1]
  • guì expensive; (bound form) highly valued; precious
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 貴

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 贵

  1. Guì Traditional 貴
    • abbr. for Guizhou Province 貴州|贵州[Gui4 zhou1]
  2. guì Traditional 貴
    • expensive
    • (bound form) highly valued; precious
    • (bound form) noble; of high rank
    • (prefix) (honorific) your

Radical and structure

贵
Radical 贝 (Kangxi radical 154) in its simplified form · 9 strokes · 𠀐 on top, 贝 below

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.

贵 in our stories

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  • 马丽说：“很贵！”

    Mǎ Lì shuō hěn guì

    Ma Li says, "That's expensive!"

    From the story Buying apples HSK 1

  • 她在网上看了很多房子，不是太贵，就是离公司太远。

    tā zài wǎngshang kàn le hěn duō fángzi bú shì tài guì jiùshì lí gōngsī tài yuǎn

    She has looked at lots of places online: they are either too expensive or too far from the office.

    From the story The cheap room HSK 3

  • 晚上十一点半，刑警骆驰接到电话：甄太太家进了小偷，一条很贵的钻石项链不见了。

    wǎnshang shíyī diǎn bàn xíngjǐng Luò Chí jiēdào diànhuà Zhēn tàitai jiā jìn le xiǎotōu yì tiáo hěn guì de zuànshí xiàngliàn bú jiàn le

    At half past eleven at night, detective Luo Chi got a call: a burglar had broken into Mrs Zhen's home and a very expensive diamond necklace was gone.

    From the story The dry floor HSK 6

Where you learn it

贵 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 2 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.

Stories using 贵

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).