极 (jí): meaning and stroke order
极 (jí) means extremely, pole (geography, physics), utmost, top.
极
- Simplified
- 极
- Traditional
- 極
- Pinyin
- jí
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Stroke order of 极
极
- jí extremely; pole (geography, physics)
- 7 strokes
- Traditional form: 極
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Meaning of 极
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jí
Traditional 極
- extremely
- pole (geography, physics)
- utmost
- top
Radical and structure
- 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.
Words with 极
- 极点 jí diǎn extreme point; pole
- 极其 jí qí extremely
- 积极 jī jí active; energetic
- 极端 jí duān extreme
极 in our stories
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唐磊高兴极了，从此不再想新的口味，每天只坐在店里等下一个网红。
Táng Lěi gāoxìng jí le cóngcǐ bú zài xiǎng xīn de kǒuwèi měitiān zhǐ zuò zài diàn lǐ děng xià yí gè wǎnghóng
Tang Lei was overjoyed. From then on he stopped thinking up new flavours and just sat in the shop every day waiting for the next influencer.
From the story Waiting by the tree stump HSK 4
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就这样又过了一万八千年，天极高，地极厚，盘古也成了顶天立地的巨人。
jiù zhèyàng yòu guò le yíwàn bāqiān nián tiān jí gāo dì jí hòu Pángǔ yě chéng le dǐngtiān-lìdì de jùrén
So another eighteen thousand years passed. The sky was immensely high, the earth immensely deep, and Pangu a giant who stood between them.
From the story Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Stories using 极
- Waiting by the tree stump HSK 4
- Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7
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).