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Mythic Mandarin

漏洞 (lòu dòng): meaning and stroke order

漏洞 (lòu dòng) means leak, hole, gap, loophole.

漏洞

Simplified
漏洞
Traditional
漏洞 (same form)
Pinyin
lòu dòng

Stroke order of 漏洞

漏

  • lòu to leak; to divulge
  • 14 strokes

Stroke by stroke

洞

  • dòng cave; hole
  • tóng used in 洪洞[Hong2 tong2], a county in Shanxi
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 漏洞

  1. lòu dòng
    • leak
    • hole
    • gap
    • loophole

Radicals of the characters

漏
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 14 strokes · 氵 on the left, 屚 on the right
洞
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 9 strokes · 氵 on the left, 同 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.

漏洞 in our stories

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  • 惠子觉得自己抓住了对方的漏洞：“我不是你，当然不知道你；你也不是鱼，所以你也不知道鱼的快乐。这下清楚了吧！”

    Huìzǐ juéde zìjǐ zhuā zhù le duìfāng de lòudòng wǒ bú shì nǐ dāngrán bù zhīdao nǐ nǐ yě bú shì yú suǒyǐ nǐ yě bù zhīdao yú de kuàilè zhè xià qīngchu le ba

    Huizi felt he had caught the flaw in his opponent's argument: "I'm not you, so of course I don't know you; and you're not a fish, so you don't know the fish's happiness either. That settles it!"

    From the story The happiness of fish HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 漏洞

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).