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Mythic Mandarin

裂痕 (liè hén): meaning and stroke order

裂痕 (liè hén) means crack, gap, split.

裂痕

Simplified
裂痕
Traditional
裂痕 (same form)
Pinyin
liè hén

Stroke order of 裂痕

裂

  • liè to split; to crack
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

痕

  • hén scar; traces
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 裂痕

  1. liè hén
    • crack
    • gap
    • split

Radicals of the characters

裂
Radical 衣 (Kangxi radical 145) · 12 strokes · 列 on top, 衣 below
痕
Radical 疒 (Kangxi radical 104) · 11 strokes · built from 疒 and 艮

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.

裂痕 in our stories

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  • 女士走后，温然问师傅：“修得再好，裂痕也还在，这算修好了吗？”

    nǚshì zǒu hòu Wēn Rán wèn shīfu xiū de zài hǎo lièhén yě hái zài zhè suàn xiūhǎo le ma

    After the woman left, Wen Ran asked her master: "However well you mend it, the crack is still there. Does that count as mended?"

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

Stories using 裂痕

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).