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Mythic Mandarin

区 (qū): meaning and stroke order

区 (qū) means area, region, district, small, distinguish, 个, surname Ou.

区

Simplified
区
Traditional
區
Pinyin
qū · Ōu

Stroke order of 区

区

  • Ōu surname Ou
  • qū area; region
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 區

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 区

  1. qū Traditional 區
    • area
    • region
    • district
    • small
    • distinguish
    • CL:個|个[ge4]
  2. Ōu Traditional 區
    • surname Ou

Radical and structure

区
Radical 匸 (Kangxi radical 23) · 4 strokes · built from 匚 and 㐅

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 区

  • 小区 xiǎo qū housing estate; community; neighborhood; (telecommunications) cell
  • 社区 shè qū community; neighborhood
  • 地区 dì qū region; area (informal or geographical term); prefecture (in China's administrative system)
  • 景区 jǐng qū scenic area
  • 郊区 Jiāo Qū Jiao District or Jiaoqu, a district of Tongling City 銅陵市|铜陵市[Tong2 ling2 Shi4], Anhui; Jiao District or Jiaoqu, a district of Jiamusi City 佳木斯市[Jia1 mu4 si1 Shi4], Heilongjiang
  • 保护区 bǎo hù qū conservation district; CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4]

区 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 周六上午，老城区的社区中心里坐满了人，一场关于“早市该不该拆”的听证会正在进行。

    zhōuliù shàngwǔ lǎochéng qū de shèqū zhōngxīn lǐ zuòmǎn le rén yì chǎng guānyú zǎoshì gāi bù gāi chāi de tīngzhènghuì zhèngzài jìnxíng

    On Saturday morning the community centre in the old town was packed: a hearing on whether the morning market should be demolished was under way.

    From the story The market hearing HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 区

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).