挥 (huī): meaning and stroke order
挥 (huī) means to wave, to brandish, to command, to conduct, to scatter, to disperse.
挥
- Simplified
- 挥
- Traditional
- 揮
- Pinyin
- huī
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Stroke order of 挥
挥
- huī to wave; to brandish
- 9 strokes
- Traditional form: 揮
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Meaning of 挥
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huī
Traditional 揮
- to wave
- to brandish
- to command
- to conduct
- to scatter
- to disperse
Radical and structure
- 挥
- Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 9 strokes · 扌 on the left, 军 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.
挥 in our stories
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他只是远远地挥了挥手，又转身走向了河边。
tā zhǐshì yuǎnyuǎn de huī le huī shǒu yòu zhuǎnshēn zǒu xiàng le hé biān
He only waved from a distance, then turned back towards the river.
From the story Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6
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木匠挥起斧头，呼的一声，白灰没了，鼻子却一点儿也没有伤着；那个人站在那儿，脸色都没变。
mùjiang huī qǐ fǔtou hū de yì shēng bái huī méi le bízi què yìdiǎnr yě méiyǒu shāng zháo nà gè rén zhàn zài nàr liǎnsè dōu méi biàn
The carpenter swung his axe with a whoosh, and the plaster was gone without the nose being scratched; the man stood there without even changing colour.
From the story The happiness of fish HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Stories using 挥
- Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6
- The happiness of fish HSK 7–9 · Level 8
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).