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Mythic Mandarin

浅 (qiǎn): meaning and stroke order

浅 (qiǎn) means shallow, light (color), sound of moving water.

浅

Simplified
浅
Traditional
淺
Pinyin
qiǎn · jiān

Stroke order of 浅

浅

  • jiān sound of moving water
  • qiǎn shallow; light (color)
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 淺

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 浅

  1. qiǎn Traditional 淺
    • shallow
    • light (color)
  2. jiān Traditional 淺
    • sound of moving water

Radical and structure

浅
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 8 strokes · 氵 on the left, 戋 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.

浅 in our stories

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  • 负责查案的官员仔细检查了伤口：伤口又宽又浅，边缘不整齐，不像刀砍的，倒像是镰刀割的。

    fùzé chá'àn de guānyuán zǐxì jiǎnchá le shāngkǒu shāngkǒu yòu kuān yòu qiǎn biānyuán bù zhěngqí bú xiàng dāo kǎn de dào xiàng shì liándāo gē de

    The official in charge examined the wounds carefully: they were wide and shallow with ragged edges—not like cuts from a knife, but rather like slashes from a sickle.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 浅

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).