矛盾 (máo dùn): meaning and stroke order
矛盾 (máo dùn) means contradiction, 个, conflicting views, contradictory.
矛盾
- Simplified
- 矛盾
- Traditional
- 矛盾 (same form)
- Pinyin
- máo dùn
Audio preview uses your device’s Chinese voice. It is not a recording.
Stroke order of 矛盾
矛
- máo spear; lance
- 5 strokes
Stroke by stroke
盾
- dùn shield; (currency) Vietnamese dong
- 9 strokes
Stroke by stroke
Practise the whole word
Write each character in its box. A hint appears after a few wrong strokes.
Meaning of 矛盾
-
máo dùn
- contradiction
- CL:個|个[ge4]
- conflicting views
- contradictory
Radicals of the characters
- 矛
- Radical 矛 (Kangxi radical 110) · 5 strokes
- 盾
- Radical 目 (Kangxi radical 109) · 9 strokes · built from 𠂆 and 𥃭
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.
Where you learn it
矛盾 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 6 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.
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).