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Mythic Mandarin

盛 (shèng): meaning and stroke order

盛 (shèng) means flourishing, vigorous, magnificent, extensively, surname Sheng, to hold, to contain.

盛

Simplified
盛
Traditional
盛 (same form)
Pinyin
shèng · chéng

Stroke order of 盛

盛

  • Shèng surname Sheng
  • chéng to hold; to contain
  • shèng flourishing; vigorous
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 盛

  1. shèng
    • flourishing
    • vigorous
    • magnificent
    • extensively
  2. Shèng
    • surname Sheng
  3. chéng
    • to hold
    • to contain
    • to ladle
    • to pick up with a utensil

Radical and structure

盛
Radical 皿 (Kangxi radical 108) · 12 strokes · 成 on top, 皿 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.

盛 in our stories

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  • 庞师傅把碗举到阳光下：“碗能盛水，能盛饭，就是修好了。裂痕不是缺点，是它经历过的事。”

    Páng shīfu bǎ wǎn jǔ dào yángguāng xià wǎn néng chéng shuǐ néng chéng fàn jiùshì xiūhǎo le lièhén bú shì quēdiǎn shì tā jīnglì guò de shì

    Master Pang held the bowl up to the sunlight: "If a bowl can hold water and hold rice, it's mended. The crack isn't a flaw; it's what the bowl has been through."

    From the story Mending the bowl HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 盛

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).