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Mythic Mandarin

拍照 (pāi zhào): meaning and stroke order

拍照 (pāi zhào) means to take a picture.

拍照

Simplified
拍照
Traditional
拍照 (same form)
Pinyin
pāi zhào

Stroke order of 拍照

拍

  • pāi to pat; to clap
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

照

  • zhào variant of 照[zhao4]; to shine
  • zhào according to; in accordance with
  • 13 strokes
  • Traditional form: 炤

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 拍照

  1. pāi zhào
    • to take a picture

Radicals of the characters

拍
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 8 strokes · 扌 on the left, 白 on the right
照
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 13 strokes · 昭 on top, 灬 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.

拍照 in our stories

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  • 他们一边走一边拍照，走到山顶的时候已经两点了。

    tāmen yìbiān zǒu yìbiān pāizhào zǒu dào shāndǐng de shíhou yǐjīng liǎng diǎn le

    They took photos along the way, and it was already two o'clock when they reached the top.

    From the story No umbrella HSK 3

Stories using 拍照

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).