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Mythic Mandarin

名 (míng): meaning and stroke order

名 (míng) means name, noun (part of speech), place (e.g. among winners), famous, classifier for people.

名

Simplified
名
Traditional
名 (same form)
Pinyin
míng

Stroke order of 名

名

  • míng name; noun (part of speech)
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 名

  1. míng
    • name
    • noun (part of speech)
    • place (e.g. among winners)
    • famous
    • classifier for people

Radical and structure

名
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 6 strokes · 夕 on top, 口 below

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.

Words with 名

名 in our stories

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  • 最后,有三个纸龙头掉进了水里,第一名是土耳其厨师的队。

    zuìhòu yǒu sān gè zhǐ lóngtóu diào jìn le shuǐ lǐ dì-yī míng shì Tǔ'ěrqí chúshī de duì

    In the end three of the paper dragon heads fell into the water, and first place went to the Turkish chef's team.

    From the story Dragon boats in Hamburg HSK 5

  • 程朗二十六岁那年,辞掉了银行的工作,决定当一名健身主播。

    Chéng Lǎng èrshíliù suì nà nián cídiào le yínháng de gōngzuò juédìng dāng yì míng jiànshēn zhǔbō

    The year he turned twenty-six, Cheng Lang quit his bank job and decided to become a fitness livestreamer.

    From the story Pulling noodles is a workout too HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 比赛那天早上,起点挤满了两万多名选手。人群中有一位头发花白的配速员,背上系着一个写着“四小时”的红气球。

    bǐsài nà tiān zǎoshang qǐdiǎn jǐmǎn le liǎngwàn duō míng xuǎnshǒu rénqún zhōng yǒu yí wèi tóufa huābái de pèisùyuán bèi shàng jì zhe yí gè xiě zhe sì xiǎoshí de hóng qìqiú

    On race morning more than twenty thousand runners were packed at the start. In the crowd was a grey-haired pacer with a red balloon tied to his back that read "four hours".

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

Stories using 名

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).