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Mythic Mandarin

木匠 (mù jiàng): meaning and stroke order

木匠 (mù jiàng) means carpenter.

木匠

Simplified
木匠
Traditional
木匠 (same form)
Pinyin
mù jiàng

Stroke order of 木匠

木

  • Mù surname Mu
  • mù (bound form) tree; (bound form) wood
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

匠

  • jiàng craftsman
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 木匠

  1. mù jiàng
    • carpenter

Radicals of the characters

木
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 4 strokes · built from 十 and 𠆢
匠
Radical 匚 (Kangxi radical 22) · 6 strokes · built from 匚 and 斤

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.

木匠 in our stories

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  • 很久以前，有一个人在鼻尖上抹了一点薄得像苍蝇翅膀的白灰，请一位木匠用斧头把它砍掉。

    hěn jiǔ yǐqián yǒu yí gè rén zài bíjiān shàng mǒ le yì diǎn báo de xiàng cāngying chìbǎng de bái huī qǐng yí wèi mùjiang yòng fǔtou bǎ tā kǎn diào

    Once there was a man who daubed a speck of white plaster, as thin as a fly's wing, on the tip of his nose and asked a carpenter to chop it off with an axe.

    From the story The happiness of fish HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 木匠

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).