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闪光灯 (shǎn guāng dēng): meaning and stroke order

闪光灯 (shǎn guāng dēng) means flash bulb (photography).

闪光灯

Simplified
闪光灯
Traditional
閃光燈
Pinyin
shǎn guāng dēng

Stroke order of 闪光灯

闪

  • Shǎn surname Shan
  • shǎn to dodge; to duck out of the way
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 閃

Stroke by stroke

光

  • guāng light; ray (CL:道[dao4]); bright; shiny
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

灯

  • dēng lamp; light
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 燈

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 闪光灯

  1. shǎn guāng dēng Traditional 閃光燈
    • flash bulb (photography)

Radicals of the characters

闪
Radical 门 (Kangxi radical 169) in its simplified form · 5 strokes · built from 门 and 人
光
Radical 儿 (Kangxi radical 10) · 6 strokes
灯
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 6 strokes · 火 on the left, 丁 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.

闪光灯 in our stories

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  • 台下掌声雷动，闪光灯此起彼伏，他却突然觉得身边空荡荡的。

    tái xià zhǎngshēng léidòng shǎnguāngdēng cǐqǐ-bǐfú tā què tūrán juéde shēnbiān kōngdàngdàng de

    Below, the applause thundered and flashbulbs went off one after another, yet he suddenly felt the space around him was empty.

    From the story The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 闪光灯

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).