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角落 (jiǎo luò): meaning and stroke order

角落 (jiǎo luò) means corner (of a room, courtyard etc), (fig.) remote spot; nook.

角落

Simplified
角落
Traditional
角落 (same form)
Pinyin
jiǎo luò

Stroke order of 角落

角

  • Jué surname Jue
  • jiǎo angle; corner
  • jué role (theater); to compete
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

落

  • là to leave out; to be missing
  • lào colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds
  • luò to fall or drop; (of the sun) to set
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 角落

  1. jiǎo luò
    • corner (of a room, courtyard etc)
    • (fig.) remote spot; nook

Radicals of the characters

角
Radical 角 (Kangxi radical 148) · 7 strokes
落
Radical 艸 (Kangxi radical 140) · 12 strokes · 艹 on top, 洛 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.

角落 in our stories

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  • 那是十年前钟远画的第一张产品草图，角落里歪歪扭扭地写着两个人的名字。

    nà shì shí nián qián Zhōng Yuǎn huà de dì-yī zhāng chǎnpǐn cǎotú jiǎoluò lǐ wāiwāi-niǔniǔ de xiě zhe liǎng gè rén de míngzi

    It was the first product sketch Zhong Yuan had drawn ten years ago, with both their names scrawled crookedly in the corner.

    From the story The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 他想，反正也没时间拍视频了，干脆一边干活一边直播，就把手机支在了厨房的角落里。

    tā xiǎng fǎnzhèng yě méi shíjiān pāi shìpín le gāncuì yìbiān gànhuó yìbiān zhíbō jiù bǎ shǒujī zhī zài le chúfáng de jiǎoluò lǐ

    He thought that since he had no time to film anyway, he might as well livestream while he worked, so he propped his phone up in a corner of the kitchen.

    From the story Pulling noodles is a workout too HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 角落

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).