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Mythic Mandarin

人类 (rén lèi): meaning and stroke order

人类 (rén lèi) means humanity, human race, mankind.

人类

Simplified
人类
Traditional
人類
Pinyin
rén lèi

Stroke order of 人类

人

  • rén person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
  • 2 strokes

Stroke by stroke

类

  • lèi kind; type; class; category; (classifier) kind; type
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 類

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 人类

  1. rén lèi Traditional 人類
    • humanity
    • human race
    • mankind

Radicals of the characters

人
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 2 strokes
类
Radical 米 (Kangxi radical 119) · 9 strokes · 米 on top, 大 below

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.

人类 in our stories

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  • 看到自己亲手创造的人类在灾难中挣扎，女神女娲心如刀割。

    kàndào zìjǐ qīnshǒu chuàngzào de rénlèi zài zāinàn zhōng zhēngzhá nǚshén Nǚwā xīn rú dāo gē

    Seeing the humans she had made with her own hands struggling in the disaster, the goddess Nüwa felt as if a knife were cutting her heart.

    From the story Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 人类

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).