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Mythic Mandarin

鞠 (Jū): meaning and stroke order

鞠 (Jū) means surname Ju, to incline (one's torso); to bow, leather ball used in ancient times.

鞠

Simplified
鞠
Traditional
鞠 (same form)
Pinyin
Jū

Stroke order of 鞠

鞠

  • Jū surname Ju
  • jū to incline (one's torso); to bow; leather ball used in ancient times
  • 17 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 鞠

  1. Jū
    • surname Ju
  2. jū
    • to incline (one's torso); to bow
    • leather ball used in ancient times
    • (literary) to bring up; to rear
    • Taiwan pr. [ju2]

Radical and structure

鞠
Radical 革 (Kangxi radical 177) · 17 strokes · 革 on the left, 匊 on the right

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.

鞠 in our stories

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  • 画完最后一笔，姑娘向他深深地鞠了一躬，慢慢地不见了。

    huà wán zuìhòu yì bǐ gūniang xiàng tā shēnshēn de jū le yì gōng mànmàn de bú jiàn le

    When he made the last brushstroke, the girl bowed deeply to him and slowly faded away.

    From the story The girl in the painting HSK 5

Stories using 鞠

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).