埋 (mái): meaning and stroke order
埋 (mái) means to bury, used in 埋怨.
埋
- Simplified
- 埋
- Traditional
- 埋 (same form)
- Pinyin
- mái · mán
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Stroke order of 埋
埋
- mái to bury
- mán used in 埋怨[man2 yuan4]
- 10 strokes
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Meaning of 埋
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mái
- to bury
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mán
- used in 埋怨[man2 yuan4]
Radical and structure
- 埋
- Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 10 strokes · 土 on the left, 里 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.
埋 in our stories
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刚来的时候，冬天下午三点天就黑了，她常常一个人坐在窗前，看着雪一点点把路灯埋起来，心里空落落的。
gāng lái de shíhou dōngtiān xiàwǔ sān diǎn tiān jiù hēi le tā chángcháng yí gè rén zuò zài chuāngqián kàn zhe xuě yìdiǎndiǎn bǎ lùdēng mái qǐlai xīnli kōngluòluò de
When she first arrived, winter darkness fell at three in the afternoon. She would often sit alone at the window, watching the snow slowly bury the street lamps, feeling hollow inside.
From the story Two homes HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Stories using 埋
- Two homes HSK 7–9 · Level 7
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).