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盒子 (hé zi): meaning and stroke order

盒子 (hé zi) means box; case, hezi – a savory turnover-like pie in northern Chinese and Mongolian cuisines.

盒子

Simplified
盒子
Traditional
盒子 (same form)
Pinyin
hé zi

Stroke order of 盒子

盒

  • hé small box; case
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

子

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 盒子

  1. hé zi
    • box; case
    • hezi – a savory turnover-like pie in northern Chinese and Mongolian cuisines

Radicals of the characters

盒
Radical 皿 (Kangxi radical 108) · 11 strokes · 合 on top, 皿 below
子
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 3 strokes · built from 了 and 一

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.

盒子 in our stories

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  • 三天以后，快递员给他送来了一个小小的盒子。

    sān tiān yǐhòu kuàidìyuán gěi tā sònglái le yí gè xiǎoxiǎo de hézi

    Three days later the courier delivered a tiny box.

    From the story The ninety-nine-yuan sofa HSK 4

  • 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

Stories using 盒子

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).