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Mythic Mandarin

脸 (liǎn): meaning and stroke order

脸 (liǎn) means face, 张个.

脸

Simplified
脸
Traditional
臉
Pinyin
liǎn

Stroke order of 脸

脸

  • liǎn face; CL:張|张[zhang1],個|个[ge4]
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 臉

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 脸

  1. liǎn Traditional 臉
    • face
    • CL:張|张[zhang1],個|个[ge4]

Radical and structure

脸
Radical 肉 (Kangxi radical 130) · 11 strokes · 月 on the left, 佥 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.

Words with 脸

脸 in our stories

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  • 有人笑着让吴迪也试一试,他红着脸做了三个,就再也上不去了。

    yǒurén xiào zhe ràng Wú Dí yě shì yí shì tā hóng zhe liǎn zuò le sān gè jiù zài yě shàng bú qù le

    Someone laughingly told Wu Di to have a go. Red-faced, he did three and then couldn't pull himself up again.

    From the story Pull-ups HSK 4

  • 唐磊听完,脸红了。第二天,他就开始研究新的奶茶。

    Táng Lěi tīng wán liǎn hóng le dì-èr tiān tā jiù kāishǐ yánjiū xīn de nǎichá

    When Tang Lei heard it, he blushed. The next day he started working on new drinks.

    From the story Waiting by the tree stump HSK 4

  • 潘杰脸都白了:三个月写的论文,他一次也没有备份过。

    Pān Jié liǎn dōu bái le sān gè yuè xiě de lùnwén tā yí cì yě méiyǒu bèifèn guò

    Pan Jie went white: he had never once backed up three months of work.

    From the story Mending the fold after the sheep is lost HSK 5

Stories using 脸

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).