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Mythic Mandarin

接受 (jiē shòu): meaning and stroke order

接受 (jiē shòu) means to accept (a suggestion, punishment, bribe etc); to acquiesce.

接受

Simplified
接受
Traditional
接受 (same form)
Pinyin
jiē shòu

Stroke order of 接受

接

  • jiē to receive; to answer (the phone)
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

受

  • shòu to receive; to accept
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 接受

  1. jiē shòu
    • to accept (a suggestion, punishment, bribe etc); to acquiesce

Radicals of the characters

接
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 11 strokes · 扌 on the left, 妾 on the right
受
Radical 又 (Kangxi radical 29) · 8 strokes

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.

接受 in our stories

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  • 第二天，她给总部写了一封长长的邮件：她愿意接受这个职位，但希望每个月有一个星期在西安远程工作。

    dì-èr tiān tā gěi zǒngbù xiě le yì fēng chángcháng de yóujiàn tā yuànyì jiēshòu zhè gè zhíwèi dàn xīwàng měi gè yuè yǒu yí gè xīngqī zài Xī'ān yuǎnchéng gōngzuò

    The next day she wrote head office a long email: she would accept the post, but asked to work remotely from Xi'an one week each month.

    From the story No perfect answer HSK 6

Stories using 接受

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).