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Mythic Mandarin

遛狗 (liù gǒu): meaning and stroke order

遛狗 (liù gǒu) means to walk a dog.

遛狗

Simplified
遛狗
Traditional
遛狗 (same form)
Pinyin
liù gǒu

Stroke order of 遛狗

遛

  • liú used in 逗遛[dou4 liu2]
  • liù to stroll; to walk (an animal)
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

狗

  • gǒu dog; CL:隻|只[zhi1],條|条[tiao2]
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 遛狗

  1. liù gǒu
    • to walk a dog

Radicals of the characters

遛
Radical 辵 (Kangxi radical 162) · 13 strokes · built from 辶 and 留
狗
Radical 犬 (Kangxi radical 94) · 8 strokes · 犭 on the left, 句 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.

遛狗 in our stories

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  • 她半信半疑地把速度降到了每公里七分钟，慢得连旁边遛狗的大爷都能跟上。

    tā bànxìnbànyí de bǎ sùdù jiàng dào le měi gōnglǐ qī fēnzhōng màn de lián pángbiān liùgǒu de dàye dōu néng gēn shàng

    Half doubting, she dropped her pace to seven minutes a kilometre—so slow that even an old man walking his dog beside her could keep up.

    From the story The four-hour balloon HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 遛狗

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).