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频道 (pín dào): meaning and stroke order

频道 (pín dào) means frequency, (television) channel.

频道

Simplified
频道
Traditional
頻道
Pinyin
pín dào

Stroke order of 频道

频

  • pín frequency; frequently
  • 13 strokes
  • Traditional form: 頻

Stroke by stroke

道

  • dào road; path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]); (bound form) way; reason; principle
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 频道

  1. pín dào Traditional 頻道
    • frequency
    • (television) channel

Radicals of the characters

频
Radical 页 (Kangxi radical 181) in its simplified form · 13 strokes · 步 on the left, 页 on the right
道
Radical 辵 (Kangxi radical 162) · 13 strokes · built from 辶 and 首

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.

频道 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 现在，他们的频道每周更新一期，名字叫“拉面也是健身”。妈妈当教练，儿子当学员，每次开头，妈妈都会说：“今天，我们练胳膊！”

    xiànzài tāmen de píndào měi zhōu gēngxīn yì qī míngzi jiào lāmiàn yě shì jiànshēn māma dāng jiàoliàn érzi dāng xuéyuán měicì kāitóu māma dōu huì shuō jīntiān wǒmen liàn gēbo

    Now their channel updates once a week, and it's called "Pulling Noodles Is a Workout Too". Mum is the coach and her son the student, and every episode she opens with: "Today, we train arms!"

    From the story Pulling noodles is a workout too HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 频道

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).