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Mythic Mandarin

好奇 (hào qí): meaning and stroke order

好奇 (hào qí) means inquisitive, curious, inquisitiveness, curiosity.

好奇

Simplified
好奇
Traditional
好奇 (same form)
Pinyin
hào qí

Stroke order of 好奇

好

  • hǎo good; appropriate; proper
  • hào to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

奇

  • jī odd (number)
  • qí strange; odd
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 好奇

  1. hào qí
    • inquisitive
    • curious
    • inquisitiveness
    • curiosity

Radicals of the characters

好
Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 6 strokes · 女 on the left, 子 on the right
奇
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 8 strokes · 大 on top, 可 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.

好奇 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 在图书馆打工的邵峰对这件事特别好奇，他发现每本书写的都是一个城市：杭州、桂林、大理……

    zài túshūguǎn dǎgōng de Shào Fēng duì zhè jiàn shì tèbié hàoqí tā fāxiàn měi běn shū xiě de dōu shì yí gè chéngshì Hángzhōu Guìlín Dàlǐ

    Shao Feng, who worked part-time in the library, was very curious. He noticed that each book was about a city: Hangzhou, Guilin, Dali…

    From the story Flowers in the book return HSK 5

Stories using 好奇

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).