灰 (huī): meaning and stroke order

灰 in our stories

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• 半年前回家路上，他在赵大家借宿，赵大夫妻看上了他的银子，趁他睡着害了他，又把他的尸骨烧成灰，和在泥里做成了这个瓦盆。

  bàn nián qián huí jiā lù shàng tā zài Zhào Dà jiā jièsù Zhào Dà fūqī kàn shàng le tā de yínzi chèn tā shuìzháo hài le tā yòu bǎ tā de shīgǔ shāo chéng huī huò zài ní lǐ zuò chéng le zhè gè wǎpén

  Six months earlier, on his way home, he had stayed the night at Zhao Da's. Zhao Da and his wife coveted his silver and killed him in his sleep, then burned his remains to ash, mixed them into clay and made this basin.

  From the story The tale of the black basin HSK 7–9 · Level 7

• 很久以前，有一个人在鼻尖上抹了一点薄得像苍蝇翅膀的白灰，请一位木匠用斧头把它砍掉。

  hěn jiǔ yǐqián yǒu yí gè rén zài bíjiān shàng mǒ le yì diǎn báo de xiàng cāngying chìbǎng de bái huī qǐng yí wèi mùjiang yòng fǔtou bǎ tā kǎn diào

  Once there was a man who daubed a speck of white plaster, as thin as a fly's wing, on the tip of his nose and asked a carpenter to chop it off with an axe.

  From the story The happiness of fish HSK 7–9 · Level 8