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Mythic Mandarin

入 (rù): meaning and stroke order

入 (rù) means to enter; to go into, to join; to become a member of.

入

Simplified
入
Traditional
入 (same form)
Pinyin
rù

Stroke order of 入

入

  • rù to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of
  • 2 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 入

  1. rù
    • to enter; to go into
    • to join; to become a member of
    • (bound form) to conform to (as in 入時|入时[ru4 shi2])
    • abbr. for 入聲|入声[ru4 sheng1]
    • (on product packaging, after {number n} + {classifier}) containing (n pieces) (from Japanese 入 "iri")

Radical and structure

入
Radical 入 (Kangxi radical 11) · 2 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.

Words with 入

入 in our stories

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  • 可是天空始终没有完全恢复原样：直到今天，太阳和月亮还是向西落下，中国的大河也大多向东流入大海。

    kěshì tiānkōng shǐzhōng méiyǒu wánquán huīfù yuányàng zhídào jīntiān tàiyáng hé yuèliang háishi xiàng xī luò xià Zhōngguó de dà hé yě dàduō xiàng dōng liú rù dàhǎi

    But the sky never fully returned to its old shape: to this day the sun and moon set in the west, and most of China's great rivers flow east into the sea.

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

Stories using 入

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).