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Mythic Mandarin

湖 (hú): meaning and stroke order

湖 (hú) means lake.

湖

Simplified
湖
Traditional
湖 (same form)
Pinyin
hú

Stroke order of 湖

湖

  • hú lake
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 湖

  1. hú
    • lake

Radical and structure

湖
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 12 strokes · 氵 on the left, 胡 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.

Words with 湖

  • 西湖 Xī hú Xihu or West lake (place name); West Lake in Hangzhou 杭州, Zhejiang

湖 in our stories

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  • 晚上，大家坐在湖边一起吃粽子，厨师说：“明年我还来，不过你们得教我包粽子。”

    wǎnshang dàjiā zuò zài hú biān yìqǐ chī zòngzi chúshī shuō míngnián wǒ hái lái búguò nǐmen děi jiāo wǒ bāo zòngzi

    In the evening everyone sat by the lake eating zongzi, and the chef said, "I'll be back next year, but you have to teach me to make zongzi."

    From the story Dragon boats in Hamburg HSK 5

Stories using 湖

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).