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Mythic Mandarin

生蚝 (shēng háo): meaning and stroke order

生蚝 (shēng háo) means raw oyster.

生蚝

Simplified
生蚝
Traditional
生蠔
Pinyin
shēng háo

Stroke order of 生蚝

生

  • shēng to be born; to give birth
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

蚝

  • háo oyster
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 蠔

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 生蚝

  1. shēng háo Traditional 生蠔
    • raw oyster

Radicals of the characters

生
Radical 生 (Kangxi radical 100) · 5 strokes · built from 𠂉 and 土
蚝
Radical 虫 (Kangxi radical 142) · 10 strokes · 虫 on the left, 毛 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.

生蚝 in our stories

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  • 在海南，他写信给儿子，说那里的生蚝太好吃了，千万别告诉朝廷里的人，免得他们都争着要来。

    zài Hǎinán tā xiě xìn gěi érzi shuō nàli de shēngháo tài hǎochī le qiānwàn bié gàosu cháotíng lǐ de rén miǎnde tāmen dōu zhēng zhe yào lái

    In Hainan he wrote to his son that the oysters there were so delicious that he mustn't tell anyone at court, lest they all fight to come too.

    From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 生蚝

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).