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Mythic Mandarin

老街 (Lǎo jiē): meaning and stroke order

老街 (Lǎo jiē) means Lao Cai, Vietnam, Laokai or Laukkai, Burma (Myanmar).

老街

Simplified
老街
Traditional
老街 (same form)
Pinyin
Lǎo jiē

Stroke order of 老街

老

  • lǎo prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity; old (of people)
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

街

  • jiē street; CL:條|条[tiao2]
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 老街

  1. Lǎo jiē
    • Lao Cai, Vietnam
    • Laokai or Laukkai, Burma (Myanmar)

Radicals of the characters

老
Radical 老 (Kangxi radical 125) · 6 strokes · 耂 on top, 匕 below
街
Radical 行 (Kangxi radical 144) · 12 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.

老街 in our stories

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  • 老街尽头有一家小店，门口挂着一块木牌：“锔瓷”。店主庞师傅七十多岁，做这门手艺已经五十年了。

    lǎojiē jìntóu yǒu yì jiā xiǎo diàn ménkǒu guà zhe yí kuài mùpái jū cí diànzhǔ Páng shīfu qīshí duō suì zuò zhè mén shǒuyì yǐjīng wǔshí nián le

    At the end of the old street is a little shop with a wooden sign at the door: "Porcelain riveting". The owner, Master Pang, is over seventy and has practised the craft for fifty years.

    From the story Mending the bowl HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 老街

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).