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Mythic Mandarin

七 (qī): meaning and stroke order

七 (qī) means seven, 7.

七

Simplified
七
Traditional
七 (same form)
Pinyin
qī

Stroke order of 七

七

  • qī seven; 7
  • 2 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 七

  1. qī
    • seven
    • 7

Radical and structure

七
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 2 strokes

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 七

七 in our stories

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  • 小月每天七点起床。

    Xiǎoyuè měitiān qī diǎn qǐchuáng

    Every day Xiaoyue gets up at seven.

    From the story Xiaoyue's day HSK 1

  • 七岁那年夏天,天气热得让人喘不过气来,哪吒跑到海边,把红绫放进水里洗澡。

    qī suì nà nián xiàtiān tiānqì rè de ràng rén chuǎn bú guò qì lái Nézhā pǎo dào hǎibiān bǎ hóng líng fàng jìn shuǐ lǐ xǐzǎo

    The summer he was seven, it was so hot people could hardly breathe; Nezha ran down to the shore and put the red sash in the water to bathe.

    From the story Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 她半信半疑地把速度降到了每公里七分钟,慢得连旁边遛狗的大爷都能跟上。

    tā bànxìnbànyí de bǎ sùdù jiàng dào le měi gōnglǐ qī fēnzhōng màn de lián pángbiān liùgǒu de dàye dōu néng gēn shàng

    Half doubting, she dropped her pace to seven minutes a kilometre—so slow that even an old man walking his dog beside her could keep up.

    From the story The four-hour balloon HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 七

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).