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互相 (hù xiāng): meaning and stroke order

互相 (hù xiāng) means each other, mutually, mutual.

互相

Simplified
互相
Traditional
互相 (same form)
Pinyin
hù xiāng

Stroke order of 互相

互

  • hù mutual
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

相

  • Xiāng surname Xiang
  • xiāng each other; one another
  • xiàng appearance; portrait
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 互相

  1. hù xiāng
    • each other
    • mutually
    • mutual

Radicals of the characters

互
Radical 二 (Kangxi radical 7) · 4 strokes · 一 on top, 彑 below
相
Radical 目 (Kangxi radical 109) · 9 strokes · 木 on the left, 目 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.

互相 in our stories

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  • 他们的想法是做一个手机软件，让邻居之间可以互相借东西：电钻、梯子、帐篷……

    tāmen de xiǎngfǎ shì zuò yí gè shǒujī ruǎnjiàn ràng línjū zhījiān kěyǐ hùxiāng jiè dōngxi diànzuàn tīzi zhàngpeng

    Their idea was a phone app that let neighbours lend each other things: drills, ladders, tents…

    From the story Fifty sheets of paper HSK 5

  • “我们在这儿买菜、聊天、互相照顾，谁两天没来，大家就会去他家敲门。拆了它，这些就都没了。”

    wǒmen zài zhèr mǎi cài liáotiān hùxiāng zhàogù shéi liǎng tiān méi lái dàjiā jiù huì qù tā jiā qiāomén chāi le tā zhèxiē jiù dōu méi le

    "We buy vegetables, chat and look after each other here. If someone doesn't come for two days, people go and knock on their door. Tear it down and all that is gone."

    From the story The market hearing HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 互相

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).