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Mythic Mandarin

哪怕 (nǎ pà): meaning and stroke order

哪怕 (nǎ pà) means even, even if, even though, no matter how.

哪怕

Simplified
哪怕
Traditional
哪怕 (same form)
Pinyin
nǎ pà

Stroke order of 哪怕

哪

  • nǎ how; which
  • na (emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊[a5] after a word ending in "n")
  • né used in 哪吒[Ne2 zha1]; Taiwan pr. [nuo2]
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

怕

  • Pà surname Pa
  • pà to be afraid; to fear
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 哪怕

  1. nǎ pà
    • even
    • even if
    • even though
    • no matter how

Radicals of the characters

哪
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 9 strokes · 口 on the left, 那 on the right
怕
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 8 strokes · 忄 on the left, 白 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.

哪怕 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 哪怕他骂我、赶我走，也比把我当成陌生人好，她想。

    nǎpà tā mà wǒ gǎn wǒ zǒu yě bǐ bǎ wǒ dàngchéng mòshēngrén hǎo tā xiǎng

    Even if he cursed me or drove me away, it would be better than treating me as a stranger, she thought.

    From the story The song in the thunderstorm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 他在书里反复强调，人命关天，官员判案的时候，哪怕只错一点点，也可能让一个无辜的人冤死。

    tā zài shū lǐ fǎnfù qiángdiào rénmìng guāntiān guānyuán pàn àn de shíhou nǎpà zhǐ cuò yìdiǎndiǎn yě kěnéng ràng yí gè wúgū de rén yuānsǐ

    Throughout the book he stressed that human life is paramount: when an official judges a case, even the smallest error can send an innocent person to an unjust death.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 哪怕

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).