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Mythic Mandarin

轿子 (jiào zi): meaning and stroke order

轿子 (jiào zi) means sedan chair, palanquin, litter.

轿子

Simplified
轿子
Traditional
轎子
Pinyin
jiào zi

Stroke order of 轿子

轿

  • jiào sedan chair; palanquin
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 轎

Stroke by stroke

子

  • zǐ son; child
  • zi noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 轿子

  1. jiào zi Traditional 轎子
    • sedan chair
    • palanquin
    • litter

Radicals of the characters

轿
Radical 车 (Kangxi radical 159) in its simplified form · 10 strokes · 车 on the left, 乔 on the right
子
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 3 strokes · built from 了 and 一

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.

轿子 in our stories

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  • 祝英台出嫁那天，花轿经过梁山伯的坟墓，突然狂风大作，轿子怎么也抬不动了。

    Zhù Yīngtái chūjià nà tiān huājiào jīngguò Liáng Shānbó de fénmù tūrán kuángfēngdàzuò jiàozi zěnme yě tái bú dòng le

    On Zhu Yingtai's wedding day, as the bridal sedan passed Liang Shanbo's grave, a violent wind suddenly rose and the sedan could no longer be carried.

    From the story The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 轿子

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).