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Mythic Mandarin

花白 (huā bái): meaning and stroke order

花白 (huā bái) means grizzled (hair).

花白

Simplified
花白
Traditional
花白 (same form)
Pinyin
huā bái

Stroke order of 花白

花

  • Huā surname Hua
  • huā flower; blossom
  • huā old variant of 花[hua1]
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 芲

Stroke by stroke

白

  • Bái surname Bai
  • bái white; snowy
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 花白

  1. huā bái
    • grizzled (hair)

Radicals of the characters

花
Radical 艸 (Kangxi radical 140) · 8 strokes · 艹 on top, 化 below
白
Radical 白 (Kangxi radical 106) · 5 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.

花白 in our stories

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  • 比赛那天早上，起点挤满了两万多名选手。人群中有一位头发花白的配速员，背上系着一个写着“四小时”的红气球。

    bǐsài nà tiān zǎoshang qǐdiǎn jǐmǎn le liǎngwàn duō míng xuǎnshǒu rénqún zhōng yǒu yí wèi tóufa huābái de pèisùyuán bèi shàng jì zhe yí gè xiě zhe sì xiǎoshí de hóng qìqiú

    On race morning more than twenty thousand runners were packed at the start. In the crowd was a grey-haired pacer with a red balloon tied to his back that read "four hours".

    From the story The four-hour balloon HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 花白

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).