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Mythic Mandarin

灵活 (líng huó): meaning and stroke order

灵活 (líng huó) means flexible, nimble, agile.

灵活

Simplified
灵活
Traditional
靈活
Pinyin
líng huó

Stroke order of 灵活

灵

  • líng quick; alert
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 靈

Stroke by stroke

活

  • huó to live; alive
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 灵活

  1. líng huó Traditional 靈活
    • flexible
    • nimble
    • agile

Radicals of the characters

灵
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 7 strokes · 𫜹 on top, 火 below
活
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 9 strokes · 氵 on the left, 舌 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.

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).