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Mythic Mandarin

假装 (jiǎ zhuāng): meaning and stroke order

假装 (jiǎ zhuāng) means to feign, to pretend.

假装

Simplified
假装
Traditional
假裝
Pinyin
jiǎ zhuāng

Stroke order of 假装

假

  • gēi used in 假掰[gei1 bai1]
  • jiǎ fake; false
  • jià vacation
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 叚

Stroke by stroke

装

  • zhuāng adornment; to adorn
  • 12 strokes
  • Traditional form: 裝

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 假装

  1. jiǎ zhuāng Traditional 假裝
    • to feign
    • to pretend

Radicals of the characters

假
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 11 strokes · 亻 on the left, 叚 on the right
装
Radical 衣 (Kangxi radical 145) · 12 strokes · 壮 on top, 衣 below

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.

假装 in our stories

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  • 于是,有一天他假装出门,其实偷偷躲在门后面。

    yúshì yǒu yì tiān tā jiǎzhuāng chūmén qíshí tōutōu duǒ zài mén hòumiàn

    So one day he pretended to go out, but secretly hid behind the door.

    From the story The river-snail girl HSK 4

  • 秦将白起故意假装失败,一路后退,赵括以为自己赢了,带着大军追了上去。

    Qín jiàng Bái Qǐ gùyì jiǎzhuāng shībài yílù hòutuì Zhào Kuò yǐwéi zìjǐ yíng le dài zhe dàjūn zhuī le shàngqu

    The Qin general Bai Qi deliberately feigned defeat and fell back all the way; Zhao Kuo thought he had won and pursued with his whole army.

    From the story Fighting battles on paper HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 女士看着那只旧碗,沉默了很久,最后说:“那就用钉子吧。我不想假装它没有碎过。”

    nǚshì kànzhe nà zhī jiù wǎn chénmò le hěn jiǔ zuìhòu shuō nà jiù yòng dīngzi ba wǒ bù xiǎng jiǎzhuāng tā méiyǒu suì guò

    The woman looked at the old bowl and was silent for a long time. Finally she said: "Then use rivets. I don't want to pretend it never broke."

    From the story Mending the bowl HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 假装

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).