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孩子们 (hái zi men): meaning and stroke order

孩子们 (hái zi men) means children.

孩子们

Simplified
孩子们
Traditional
孩子們
Pinyin
hái zi men

Stroke order of 孩子们

孩

  • hái (bound form) child
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

子

  • zǐ son; child
  • zi noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

们

  • men plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 們

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 孩子们

  1. hái zi men Traditional 孩子們
    • children

Radicals of the characters

孩
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 9 strokes · 子 on the left, 亥 on the right
子
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 3 strokes · built from 了 and 一
们
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 5 strokes · 亻 on the left, 门 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.

孩子们 in our stories

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  • 大学三年级的暑假，贺敏报名去云南的一个山村小学做志愿者，教孩子们英语。

    dàxué sān niánjí de shǔjià Hè Mǐn bàomíng qù Yúnnán de yí gè shāncūn xiǎoxué zuò zhìyuànzhě jiāo háizimen Yīngyǔ

    In the summer holidays after her third year at university, He Min signed up as a volunteer at a mountain village school in Yunnan, teaching the children English.

    From the story English on the basketball court HSK 5

Stories using 孩子们

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).