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号码 (hào mǎ): meaning and stroke order

号码 (hào mǎ) means number, CL:堆个.

号码

Simplified
号码
Traditional
號碼
Pinyin
hào mǎ

Stroke order of 号码

号

  • háo roar; cry
  • hào ordinal number; day of a month
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 號

Stroke by stroke

码

  • mǎ (archaic) agate; (bound form) standard weight used with a balance scale
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 碼

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 号码

  1. hào mǎ Traditional 號碼
    • number
    • CL:堆[dui1],個|个[ge4]

Radicals of the characters

号
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 5 strokes · 口 on top, 丂 below
码
Radical 石 (Kangxi radical 112) · 8 strokes · 石 on the left, 马 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.

号码 in our stories

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  • 电话号码被一只小猫挡住了。

    diànhuà hàomǎ bèi yì zhī xiǎo māo dǎng zhù le

    The phone number is covered by a little cat.

    From the story Drawing legs on a snake HSK 3

  • 那天晚上，她在厨房的抽屉里找东西，却发现了一个装满药的盒子，还有一张写着邻居电话的纸条：“如果我摔倒了，请打这个号码。”

    nà tiān wǎnshang tā zài chúfáng de chōuti lǐ zhǎo dōngxi què fāxiàn le yí gè zhuāng mǎn yào de hézi háiyǒu yì zhāng xiě zhe línjū diànhuà de zhǐtiáo rúguǒ wǒ shuāidǎo le qǐng dǎ zhè gè hàomǎ

    That night, looking for something in a kitchen drawer, she found a box full of medicine and a note with the neighbour's number: "If I fall, please call this number."

    From the story No perfect answer HSK 6

  • 他盯着那张纸看了很久，拿起手机，翻到那个很久没联系的号码，却迟迟没有按下去。

    tā dīng zhe nà zhāng zhǐ kàn le hěn jiǔ ná qǐ shǒujī fān dào nà gè hěn jiǔ méi liánxì de hàomǎ què chíchí méiyǒu àn xiàqu

    He stared at it for a long time, picked up his phone and scrolled to the number he hadn't called in ages, but kept holding back from pressing it.

    From the story The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 号码

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).