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怀孕 (huái yùn): meaning and stroke order

怀孕 (huái yùn) means pregnant, to have conceived, gestation, pregnancy.

怀孕

Simplified
怀孕
Traditional
懷孕
Pinyin
huái yùn

Stroke order of 怀孕

怀

  • Huái surname Huai
  • huái bosom; heart
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 懷

Stroke by stroke

孕

  • yùn pregnant
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 怀孕

  1. huái yùn Traditional 懷孕
    • pregnant
    • to have conceived
    • gestation
    • pregnancy

Radicals of the characters

怀
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 7 strokes · 忄 on the left, 不 on the right
孕
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 5 strokes · built from 乃 and 子

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.

怀孕 in our stories

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  • 商朝末年，陈塘关的总兵李靖家里出了一件怪事：夫人怀孕三年零六个月，生下来的竟然是一个肉球。

    Shāngcháo mònián Chéntángguān de zǒngbīng Lǐ Jìng jiā lǐ chū le yí jiàn guài shì fūren huáiyùn sān nián líng liù gè yuè shēng xiàlai de jìngrán shì yí gè ròuqiú

    At the end of the Shang dynasty a strange thing happened in the house of Li Jing, commander of Chentang Pass: his wife was pregnant for three years and six months, and what she gave birth to was a ball of flesh.

    From the story Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 白素贞醒来，看到丈夫已经没有了呼吸，心痛欲绝。她不顾怀孕的身体，飞到昆仑山去偷能起死回生的仙草。

    Bái Sùzhēn xǐng lái kàndào zhàngfu yǐjīng méiyǒu le hūxī xīntòngyùjué tā búgù huáiyùn de shēntǐ fēi dào Kūnlún Shān qù tōu néng qǐsǐhuíshēng de xiāncǎo

    When Bai Suzhen came to and saw her husband no longer breathing, she was heartbroken. Heedless of her pregnancy, she flew to the Kunlun Mountains to steal a magic herb that could bring the dead back to life.

    From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 怀孕

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).