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Mythic Mandarin

积极 (jī jí): meaning and stroke order

积极 (jī jí) means active, energetic, vigorous, positive (outlook), proactive.

积极

Simplified
积极
Traditional
積極
Pinyin
jī jí

Stroke order of 积极

积

  • jī to amass; to accumulate; to store up; (math.) product (the result of multiplication)
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 積

Stroke by stroke

极

  • jí extremely; pole (geography, physics)
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 極

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 积极

  1. jī jí Traditional 積極
    • active
    • energetic
    • vigorous
    • positive (outlook)
    • proactive

Radicals of the characters

积
Radical 禾 (Kangxi radical 115) · 10 strokes · 禾 on the left, 只 on the right
极
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 7 strokes · 木 on the left, 及 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.

Where you learn it

积极 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 4 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.

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).