号 (hào): meaning and stroke order

号 in our stories

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• “我在二号门，旁边有咖啡店。”

  wǒ zài èr hào mén pángbiān yǒu kāfēidiàn

  "I'm at gate two, next to a cafe."

  From the story At the airport HSK 2

• 一百年前的一个冬夜，客轮“海兴号”在离港口不远的海上沉没了，好在船上的乘客全部获救。

  yìbǎi nián qián de yí gè dōngyè kèlún Hǎixīng hào zài lí gǎngkǒu bù yuǎn de hǎi shàng chénmò le hǎozài chuán shàng de chéngkè quánbù huòjiù

  One winter night a hundred years ago, the passenger ship Haixing sank not far from port; fortunately all the passengers were rescued.

  From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

• 一家二十多口人要吃饭，他只好向官府要了一块荒地，自己开荒种地。因为这块地在城东的山坡上，他就给自己起了个号，叫“东坡居士”。

  yìjiā èrshí duō kǒu rén yào chīfàn tā zhǐhǎo xiàng guānfǔ yào le yí kuài huāngdì zìjǐ kāihuāng zhòng dì yīnwèi zhè kuài dì zài chéng dōng de shānpō shàng tā jiù gěi zìjǐ qǐ le gè hào jiào Dōngpō jūshì

  With a household of over twenty to feed, he had to ask the authorities for a plot of waste land and clear it to farm himself. Because it lay on a hillside east of the town, he gave himself a name: "the Lay Buddhist of the Eastern Slope", Dongpo.

  From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9