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Mythic Mandarin

射 (shè): meaning and stroke order

射 (shè) means to shoot, to launch, to allude to, radio- (chemistry), old variant of 射.

射

Simplified
射
Traditional
射, 䠶
Pinyin
shè

Stroke order of 射

射

  • shè old variant of 射[she4]
  • shè to shoot; to launch
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 䠶

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 射

  1. shè
    • to shoot
    • to launch
    • to allude to
    • radio- (chemistry)
  2. shè Traditional 䠶
    • old variant of 射[she4]

Radical and structure

射
Radical 寸 (Kangxi radical 41) · 10 strokes · 身 on the left, 寸 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.

射 in our stories

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  • 一个叫后羿的英雄射下了九个太阳，人们都很感谢他。

    yí gè jiào Hòu Yì de yīngxióng shè xià le jiǔ gè tàiyáng rénmen dōu hěn gǎnxiè tā

    A hero called Hou Yi shot down nine of the suns, and everyone was grateful to him.

    From the story Chang'e flies to the moon HSK 3

  • 他们饿了四十六天。赵括带人拼命突围，结果被乱箭射死，赵军全部投降。

    tāmen è le sìshíliù tiān Zhào Kuò dài rén pīnmìng tūwéi jiéguǒ bèi luànjiàn shè sǐ Zhào jūn quánbù tóuxiáng

    They starved for forty-six days. Zhao Kuo led a desperate breakout and was shot dead by a hail of arrows, and the whole Zhao army surrendered.

    From the story Fighting battles on paper HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 射

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).