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Mythic Mandarin

轻轻 (qīng qīng): meaning and stroke order

轻轻 (qīng qīng) means lightly; softly.

轻轻

Simplified
轻轻
Traditional
輕輕
Pinyin
qīng qīng

Stroke order of 轻轻

轻

  • qīng light; easy
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 輕

Stroke by stroke

轻

  • qīng light; easy
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 輕

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 轻轻

  1. qīng qīng Traditional 輕輕
    • lightly; softly

Radicals of the characters

轻
Radical 车 (Kangxi radical 159) in its simplified form · 9 strokes · 车 on the left, 𢀖 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.

轻轻 in our stories

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  • 快十点的时候，一位头发全白的老人慢慢走过来，把一本书轻轻放进了还书箱。

    kuài shí diǎn de shíhou yí wèi tóufa quán bái de lǎorén mànmàn zǒu guòlai bǎ yì běn shū qīngqīng fàng jìn le huánshūxiāng

    Just before ten, an old man with completely white hair came slowly over and gently put a book into the return box.

    From the story Flowers in the book return HSK 5

  • 半夜，他被一阵轻轻的脚步声吵醒，一个穿白衣服的姑娘端着一杯茶站在他面前。

    bànyè tā bèi yí zhèn qīngqīng de jiǎobùshēng chǎoxǐng yí gè chuān bái yīfu de gūniang duān zhe yì bēi chá zhàn zài tā miànqián

    At midnight he was woken by soft footsteps: a girl in white stood before him holding a cup of tea.

    From the story The girl in the painting HSK 5

  • 她小心地取来一点稀释的碘酒，用最细的毛笔在页角轻轻刷了一下。

    tā xiǎoxīn de qǔlái yì diǎn xīshì de diǎnjiǔ yòng zuì xì de máobǐ zài yè jiǎo qīngqīng shuā le yíxià

    She carefully fetched a little diluted iodine and brushed it lightly on a corner of the page with her finest brush.

    From the story Words written in rice water HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 轻轻

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).