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Mythic Mandarin

剩 (shèng): meaning and stroke order

剩 (shèng) means to remain, to be left, to have as remainder, variant of 剩.

剩

Simplified
剩
Traditional
剩, 賸
Pinyin
shèng

Stroke order of 剩

剩

  • shèng to remain; to be left
  • shèng variant of 剩[sheng4]
  • 12 strokes
  • Traditional form: 賸

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 剩

  1. shèng
    • to remain
    • to be left
    • to have as remainder
  2. shèng Traditional 賸
    • variant of 剩[sheng4]

Radical and structure

剩
Radical 刀 (Kangxi radical 18) · 12 strokes · 乘 on the left, 刂 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.

Words with 剩

剩 in our stories

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  • 最后,转盘上只剩下一个灰色的箱子,跟他的一模一样。

    zuìhòu zhuànpán shàng zhǐ shèng xià yí gè huīsè de xiāngzi gēn tā de yìmú-yíyàng

    In the end only one grey suitcase was left on the carousel, exactly like his.

    From the story The identical suitcase HSK 4

  • 离交毕业论文只剩两个星期了,潘杰的电脑突然黑屏,怎么也打不开。

    lí jiāo bìyè lùnwén zhǐ shèng liǎng gè xīngqī le Pān Jié de diànnǎo tūrán hēi píng zěnme yě dǎ bù kāi

    With only two weeks left before his thesis was due, Pan Jie's computer suddenly went black and wouldn't start.

    From the story Mending the fold after the sheep is lost HSK 5

  • 十三年后,当他回到长安时,出发时的一百多人只剩下两个。

    shísān nián hòu dāng tā huídào Cháng'ān shí chūfā shí de yìbǎi duō rén zhǐ shèng xià liǎng gè

    Thirteen years after setting out, when he returned to Chang'an, only two of the hundred-odd men were left.

    From the story Zhang Qian's mission to the West HSK 6

Stories using 剩

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).