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Mythic Mandarin

陌生人 (mò shēng rén): meaning and stroke order

陌生人 (mò shēng rén) means stranger.

陌生人

Simplified
陌生人
Traditional
陌生人 (same form)
Pinyin
mò shēng rén

Stroke order of 陌生人

陌

  • mò raised path; street
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

生

  • shēng to be born; to give birth
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

人

  • rén person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
  • 2 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 陌生人

  1. mò shēng rén
    • stranger

Radicals of the characters

陌
Radical 阜 (Kangxi radical 170) · 8 strokes · 阝 on the left, 百 on the right
生
Radical 生 (Kangxi radical 100) · 5 strokes · built from 𠂉 and 土
人
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 2 strokes

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.

陌生人 in our stories

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  • 袁媛有点儿担心：我们是不是慢慢变成陌生人了？

    Yuán Yuán yǒudiǎnr dānxīn wǒmen shì bu shì mànmàn biànchéng mòshēngrén le

    Yuan Yuan began to worry: are we slowly turning into strangers?

    From the story Twelve hours apart HSK 4

  • 可是第一位投资人听完，只问了一个问题：“你们怎么知道大家真的愿意借给陌生人？”

    kěshì dì-yī wèi tóuzīrén tīng wán zhǐ wèn le yí gè wèntí nǐmen zěnme zhīdao dàjiā zhēnde yuànyì jiè gěi mòshēngrén

    But the first investor heard them out and asked just one question: "How do you know people really want to lend to strangers?"

    From the story Fifty sheets of paper HSK 5

  • 挪威人礼貌而安静，公交车上宁可站着，也不愿意坐到陌生人旁边。

    Nuówēi rén lǐmào ér ānjìng gōngjiāochē shàng nìngkě zhàn zhe yě bù yuànyì zuò dào mòshēngrén pángbiān

    Norwegians were polite and quiet; on the bus they would rather stand than sit next to a stranger.

    From the story Two homes HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 陌生人

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).