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Mythic Mandarin

社会 (shè huì): meaning and stroke order

社会 (shè huì) means society, 个.

社会

Simplified
社会
Traditional
社會
Pinyin
shè huì

Stroke order of 社会

社

  • shè (bound form) society; organization; agency; (old) god of the land
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

会

  • huì can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to
  • kuài (bound form) to reckon accounts
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 會

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 社会

  1. shè huì Traditional 社會
    • society
    • CL:個|个[ge4]

Radicals of the characters

社
Radical 示 (Kangxi radical 113) · 8 strokes · 礻 on the left, 土 on the right
会
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 6 strokes · 𠆢 on top, 云 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.

Where you learn it

社会 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 4 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.

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).