壶 (hú): meaning and stroke order
壶 (hú) means pot, classifier for bottled liquid.
壶
- Simplified
- 壶
- Traditional
- 壺
- Pinyin
- hú
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Stroke order of 壶
壶
- hú pot; classifier for bottled liquid
- 10 strokes
- Traditional form: 壺
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Meaning of 壶
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hú
Traditional 壺
- pot
- classifier for bottled liquid
Radical and structure
- 壶
- Radical 士 (Kangxi radical 33) · 10 strokes
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.
壶 in our stories
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老师给他讲了一个故事：几个人比赛画蛇，先画完的人能喝一壶酒。
lǎoshī gěi tā jiǎng le yí gè gùshi jǐ gè rén bǐsài huà shé xiān huà wán de rén néng hē yì hú jiǔ
The teacher tells him a story: some men had a snake-drawing race, and the first to finish would get a pot of wine.
From the story Drawing legs on a snake HSK 3
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聂川没有卖。春节的时候，他把那些笑过他的亲戚都请到家里，泡了一壶茶，说：“舅公说了，要一起喝。”
Niè Chuān méiyǒu mài Chūnjié de shíhou tā bǎ nàxiē xiào guò tā de qīnqi dōu qǐng dào jiā lǐ pào le yì hú chá shuō jiùgōng shuō le yào yìqǐ hē
Nie Chuan didn't sell it. At the Spring Festival he invited all the relatives who had laughed at him, brewed a pot of the tea and said, "Great-uncle said we should drink it together."
From the story Great-uncle's wooden box HSK 6
Stories using 壶
- Drawing legs on a snake HSK 3
- Great-uncle's wooden box HSK 6
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).