男 (nán): meaning and stroke order
男 (nán) means (bound form) male, baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位.
男
- Simplified
- 男
- Traditional
- 男 (same form)
- Pinyin
- nán
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Stroke order of 男
男
- nán (bound form) male; baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
- 7 strokes
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Meaning of 男
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nán
- (bound form) male
- baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
Radical and structure
- 男
- Radical 田 (Kangxi radical 102) · 7 strokes · 田 on top, 力 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 男
- 男人 nán rén a man; a male
- 男孩 nán hái boy; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 男朋友 nán péng you boyfriend
男 in our stories
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可是那时候，女孩子是不能进学堂的。她想了一个办法：打扮成男的，去杭州求学。
kěshì nà shíhou nǚháizi shì bù néng jìn xuétáng de tā xiǎng le yí gè bànfǎ dǎban chéng nán de qù Hángzhōu qiúxué
But in those days girls could not attend school. She came up with a plan: to dress as a man and go to Hangzhou to study.
From the story The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Stories using 男
- The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8
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).