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牛奶 (niú nǎi): meaning and stroke order

牛奶 (niú nǎi) means cow's milk, CL:瓶,杯.

牛奶

Simplified
牛奶
Traditional
牛奶 (same form)
Pinyin
niú nǎi

Stroke order of 牛奶

牛

  • Niú surname Niu
  • niú ox; cow
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

奶

  • nǎi breast; milk
  • nǎi variant of 嬭|奶[nai3]
  • nǎi mother; variant of 奶[nai3]
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 妳

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 牛奶

  1. niú nǎi
    • cow's milk
    • CL:瓶[ping2],杯[bei1]

Radicals of the characters

牛
Radical 牛 (Kangxi radical 93) · 4 strokes
奶
Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 5 strokes · 女 on the left, 乃 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.

牛奶 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 妻子打开冰箱，手机就在牛奶旁边！

    qīzi dǎkāi bīngxiāng shǒujī jiù zài niúnǎi pángbiān

    His wife opens the fridge: the phone is right next to the milk!

    From the story Where's my phone? HSK 2

Stories using 牛奶

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).