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Mythic Mandarin

屈原 (Qū Yuán): meaning and stroke order

屈原 (Qū Yuán) means Qu Yuan (340-278 BC), famous Warring States statesman and poet.

屈原

Simplified
屈原
Traditional
屈原 (same form)
Pinyin
Qū Yuán

Stroke order of 屈原

屈

  • Qū surname Qu
  • qū bent; to feel wronged
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

原

  • Yuán surname Yuan; (Japanese surname) Hara
  • yuán former; original
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 屈原

  1. Qū Yuán
    • Qu Yuan (340-278 BC), famous Warring States statesman and poet, author of Sorrow at Parting 離騷|离骚 Lisao in Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞

Radicals of the characters

屈
Radical 尸 (Kangxi radical 44) · 8 strokes · built from 尸 and 出
原
Radical 厂 (Kangxi radical 27) · 10 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.

屈原 in our stories

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  • 比赛以前，曾琳用蹩脚的德语给大家讲了屈原的故事：两千多年前，一位诗人跳进了江里，人们划着船去找他。

    bǐsài yǐqián Zēng Lín yòng biéjiǎo de Déyǔ gěi dàjiā jiǎng le Qū Yuán de gùshi liǎngqiān duō nián qián yí wèi shīrén tiào jìn le jiāng lǐ rénmen huá zhe chuán qù zhǎo tā

    Before the race Zeng Lin told everyone the story of Qu Yuan in her clumsy German: more than two thousand years ago a poet jumped into a river, and people rowed out to search for him.

    From the story Dragon boats in Hamburg HSK 5

Stories using 屈原

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).