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Mythic Mandarin

落榜 (luò bǎng): meaning and stroke order

落榜 (luò bǎng) means to fail the imperial exams, to flunk.

落榜

Simplified
落榜
Traditional
落榜 (same form)
Pinyin
luò bǎng

Stroke order of 落榜

落

  • là to leave out; to be missing
  • lào colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds
  • luò to fall or drop; (of the sun) to set
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

榜

  • bǎng notice or announcement; list of names
  • bàng (literary) oar; (metonym) boat
  • péng variant of 搒[peng2]
  • 14 strokes
  • Traditional form: 牓

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 落榜

  1. luò bǎng
    • to fail the imperial exams
    • to flunk

Radicals of the characters

落
Radical 艸 (Kangxi radical 140) · 12 strokes · 艹 on top, 洛 below
榜
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 14 strokes · 木 on the left, 旁 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.

落榜 in our stories

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  • 那年春天，书生韩青第三次落榜，从长安回家，走到黄河边的龙门渡口时，天已经快黑了。

    nà nián chūntiān shūshēng Hán Qīng dì-sān cì luòbǎng cóng Cháng'ān huí jiā zǒu dào Huáng Hé biān de Lóngmén dùkǒu shí tiān yǐjīng kuài hēi le

    That spring the scholar Han Qing failed the examination for the third time. Heading home from Chang'an, he reached the Dragon Gate ferry on the Yellow River as night was falling.

    From the story The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 落榜

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).