舅舅 (jiù jiu): meaning and stroke order
舅舅 (jiù jiu) means mother's brother, maternal uncle (informal), 个.
舅舅
- Simplified
- 舅舅
- Traditional
- 舅舅 (same form)
- Pinyin
- jiù jiu
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Stroke order of 舅舅
舅
- jiù maternal uncle
- 13 strokes
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舅
- jiù maternal uncle
- 13 strokes
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Meaning of 舅舅
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jiù jiu
- mother's brother
- maternal uncle (informal)
- CL:個|个[ge4]
Radicals of the characters
- 舅
- Radical 臼 (Kangxi radical 134) · 13 strokes · 臼 on top, 男 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.
舅舅 in our stories
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沉香回到华山,打败了舅舅二郎神,然后举起神斧,用尽全身的力气向山劈下去。
Chénxiāng huídào Huà Shān dǎbài le jiùjiu Èrláng Shén ránhòu jǔ qǐ shén fǔ yòngjìn quánshēn de lìqi xiàng shān pī xiàqu
Chenxiang returned to Mount Hua, defeated his uncle Erlang Shen, then raised the axe and brought it down on the mountain with all his strength.
From the story Splitting the mountain to save his mother HSK 5
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舅舅听了他的故事,讲起了一个古老的故事:边塞有个老人丢了一匹马,邻居都来安慰他,他却说:“谁知道这不是好事呢?”
jiùjiu tīng le tā de gùshi jiǎng qǐ le yí gè gǔlǎo de gùshi biānsài yǒu gè lǎorén diū le yì pǐ mǎ línjū dōu lái ānwèi tā tā què shuō shéi zhīdao zhè bú shì hǎoshì ne
Hearing his story, his uncle told an ancient one: an old man on the frontier lost a horse, and when the neighbours came to console him he said, "Who knows that this isn't a blessing?"
From the story The old man who lost his horse HSK 6
Stories using 舅舅
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).