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Mythic Mandarin

朋友 (péng you): meaning and stroke order

朋友 (péng you) means friend, 个,位.

朋友

Simplified
朋友
Traditional
朋友 (same form)
Pinyin
péng you

Stroke order of 朋友

朋

  • péng friend
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

友

  • yǒu friend
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 朋友

  1. péng you
    • friend
    • CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

Radicals of the characters

朋
Radical 月 (Kangxi radical 74) · 8 strokes · 月 on the left, 月 on the right
友
Radical 又 (Kangxi radical 29) · 4 strokes · built from 𠂇 and 又

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.

朋友 in our stories

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  • 朋友看照片：“这个孩子是谁？”

    péngyou kàn zhàopiàn zhè gè háizi shì shéi

    His friend looks at the photo: "Who is this child?"

    From the story A photo HSK 1

  • 朋友也不说“生日快乐”。

    péngyou yě bù shuō shēngrì kuàilè

    Her friends don't say "Happy birthday" either.

    From the story Happy birthday HSK 1

  • 朋友陈静说好来机场接他。

    péngyou Chén Jìng shuōhǎo lái jīchǎng jiē tā

    His friend Chen Jing had promised to come and meet him at the airport.

    From the story At the airport HSK 2

Where you learn it

朋友 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.

Stories using 朋友

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).