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Mythic Mandarin

理想 (lǐ xiǎng): meaning and stroke order

理想 (lǐ xiǎng) means an ideal, a dream, ideal, perfect.

理想

Simplified
理想
Traditional
理想 (same form)
Pinyin
lǐ xiǎng

Stroke order of 理想

理

  • lǐ texture; grain (of wood)
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

想

  • xiǎng to think (about); to think of; to devise
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 理想

  1. lǐ xiǎng
    • an ideal
    • a dream
    • ideal
    • perfect

Radicals of the characters

理
Radical 玉 (Kangxi radical 96) · 11 strokes · 𤣩 on the left, 里 on the right
想
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 13 strokes · 相 on top, 心 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.

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).