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Mythic Mandarin

目的 (mù dì): meaning and stroke order

目的 (mù dì) means purpose; aim; goal; target; objective, 个.

目的

Simplified
目的
Traditional
目的 (same form)
Pinyin
mù dì

Stroke order of 目的

目

  • mù eye; (literary) to look; to regard
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

的

  • de of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  • dī a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士[di1 shi4])
  • dí really and truly
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 目的

  1. mù dì
    • purpose; aim; goal; target; objective
    • CL:個|个[ge4]

Radicals of the characters

目
Radical 目 (Kangxi radical 109) · 5 strokes · built from 囗 and 𠄠
的
Radical 白 (Kangxi radical 106) · 8 strokes · 白 on the left, 勺 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.

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).