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Mythic Mandarin

跪 (guì): meaning and stroke order

跪 (guì) means to kneel.

跪

Simplified
跪
Traditional
跪 (same form)
Pinyin
guì

Stroke order of 跪

跪

  • guì to kneel
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 跪

  1. guì
    • to kneel

Radical and structure

跪
Radical 足 (Kangxi radical 157) · 13 strokes · 𧾷 on the left, 危 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.

跪 in our stories

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  • 悟空跪在地上,向师父磕了三个头,眼泪在眼睛里打转,却一句辩解的话都没说。

    Wùkōng guì zài dì shàng xiàng shīfu kē le sān gè tóu yǎnlèi zài yǎnjing lǐ dǎzhuàn què yí jù biànjiě de huà dōu méi shuō

    Wukong knelt, kowtowed three times to his master with tears welling in his eyes, and said not a single word in his own defence.

    From the story Monkey strikes the White Bone Demon three times HSK 6

  • 在众人的目光下,那个人终于跪在地上,承认了自己的罪行。

    zài zhòngrén de mùguāng xià nà gè rén zhōngyú guì zài dì shàng chéngrèn le zìjǐ de zuìxíng

    Under everyone's gaze the man at last knelt on the ground and confessed his crime.

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

Stories using 跪

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).