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坚定 (jiān dìng): meaning and stroke order

坚定 (jiān dìng) means firm, steady, staunch, resolute.

坚定

Simplified
坚定
Traditional
堅定
Pinyin
jiān dìng

Stroke order of 坚定

坚

  • jiān strong; solid
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 堅

Stroke by stroke

定

  • dìng to fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc)
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 坚定

  1. jiān dìng Traditional 堅定
    • firm
    • steady
    • staunch
    • resolute

Radicals of the characters

坚
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 7 strokes
定
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 8 strokes · 宀 on top, 𤴓 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.

坚定 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 后来，“精卫填海”成了一个成语，用来形容人意志坚定，不怕困难。

    hòulái Jīngwèi tián hǎi chéng le yí gè chéngyǔ yònglái xíngróng rén yìzhì jiāndìng búpà kùnnan

    Later "Jingwei fills the sea" became an idiom describing someone of firm will who fears no hardship.

    From the story Jingwei fills the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 坚定

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).