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Mythic Mandarin

何妨 (hé fáng): meaning and stroke order

何妨 (hé fáng) means what harm is there in (doing sth).

何妨

Simplified
何妨
Traditional
何妨 (same form)
Pinyin
hé fáng

Stroke order of 何妨

何

  • Hé surname He
  • hé what; how
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

妨

  • fáng to hinder; (in the negative or interrogative) (no) harm
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 何妨

  1. hé fáng
    • what harm is there in (doing sth)

Radicals of the characters

何
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 7 strokes · 亻 on the left, 可 on the right
妨
Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 7 strokes · 女 on the left, 方 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.

何妨 in our stories

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  • 回来以后，他写下了一首词，就是流传至今的“定风波”。开头两句是：莫听穿林打叶声，何妨吟啸且徐行。

    huílai yǐhòu tā xiě xià le yì shǒu cí jiùshì liúchuán zhìjīn de Dìngfēngbō kāitóu liǎng jù shì mò tīng chuān lín dǎ yè shēng héfáng yín xiào qiě xú xíng

    When he got back he wrote a lyric, the "Calming the Waves" still known today. It begins: "Don't listen to the rain piercing the woods and beating the leaves; why not chant and whistle and walk on slowly?"

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

Stories using 何妨

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).