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Mythic Mandarin

身材 (shēn cái): meaning and stroke order

身材 (shēn cái) means stature, build (height and weight), figure.

身材

Simplified
身材
Traditional
身材 (same form)
Pinyin
shēn cái

Stroke order of 身材

身

  • shēn body; life
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

材

  • cái material; timber
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 身材

  1. shēn cái
    • stature
    • build (height and weight)
    • figure

Radicals of the characters

身
Radical 身 (Kangxi radical 158) · 7 strokes · built from 𨈐 and 𠄠
材
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 7 strokes · 木 on the left, 才 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.

身材 in our stories

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  • 他身材高大，两只耳朵上挂着黄蛇，手里也握着黄蛇，一步能跨过一座山丘。

    tā shēncái gāodà liǎng zhī ěrduo shàng guà zhe huángshé shǒu lǐ yě wò zhe huángshé yí bù néng kuà guò yí zuò shānqiū

    He was enormous: yellow snakes hung from his ears and he held yellow snakes in his hands, and a single stride carried him over a hill.

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 身材

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).