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惠子 (Huì zi): meaning and stroke order

惠子 (Huì zi) means Hui-zi also known as Hui Shi 惠施 (c. 370-310 BC).

惠子

Simplified
惠子
Traditional
惠子 (same form)
Pinyin
Huì zi

Stroke order of 惠子

惠

  • Huì surname Hui
  • huì (bound form) act of kindness (from a superior); (honorific prefix) kind (as in 惠顧|惠顾[hui4 gu4])
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

子

  • zǐ son; child
  • zi noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 惠子

  1. Huì zi
    • Hui-zi also known as Hui Shi 惠施[Hui4 Shi1] (c. 370-310 BC), politician and philosopher of the School of Logicians 名家[Ming2 jia1] during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)

Radicals of the characters

惠
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 12 strokes
子
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 3 strokes · built from 了 and 一

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.

惠子 in our stories

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  • 两千多年前,有两位哲学家是一对很特别的朋友:一位是庄子,一位是惠子。

    liǎngqiān duō nián qián yǒu liǎng wèi zhéxuéjiā shì yí duì hěn tèbié de péngyou yí wèi shì Zhuāngzǐ yí wèi shì Huìzǐ

    More than two thousand years ago two philosophers were very unusual friends: one was Zhuangzi, the other Huizi.

    From the story 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).