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Mythic Mandarin

国王 (guó wáng): meaning and stroke order

国王 (guó wáng) means king.

国王

Simplified
国王
Traditional
國王
Pinyin
guó wáng

Stroke order of 国王

国

  • Guó surname Guo
  • guó country; nation; state; (bound form) national
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 國

Stroke by stroke

王

  • Wáng surname Wang
  • wáng king or monarch; best or strongest of its type
  • wàng (literary) (of a monarch) to reign over (a kingdom)
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 国王

  1. guó wáng Traditional 國王
    • king

Radicals of the characters

国
Radical 囗 (Kangxi radical 31) · 8 strokes · built from 囗 and 玉
王
Radical 玉 (Kangxi radical 96) · 4 strokes · 一 on top, 土 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.

国王 in our stories

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  • 有一个传说讲，西域一个小国的国王娶了一位中国公主，请求她带些蚕种过来。

    yǒu yí gè chuánshuō jiǎng Xīyù yí gè xiǎoguó de guówáng qǔ le yí wèi Zhōngguó gōngzhǔ qǐngqiú tā dài xiē cánzhǒng guòlai

    One legend tells that the king of a small kingdom in the Western Regions married a Chinese princess and asked her to bring some silkworm eggs with her.

    From the story Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 后来国王请木匠再表演一次，木匠说：“我以前能做到，可是那个敢站着不动的人早就死了。”

    hòulái guówáng qǐng mùjiang zài biǎoyǎn yí cì mùjiang shuō wǒ yǐqián néng zuòdào kěshì nà gè gǎn zhàn zhe bú dòng de rén zǎo jiù sǐ le

    Later a king asked the carpenter to perform it again, and he said: "I used to be able to do it, but the man who dared to stand still died long ago."

    From the story The happiness of fish HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 国王

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).