势 (shì): meaning and stroke order
势 (shì) means power, influence, potential, momentum, tendency, trend, situation, conditions.
势
- Simplified
- 势
- Traditional
- 勢
- Pinyin
- shì
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Stroke order of 势
势
- shì power; influence
- 8 strokes
- Traditional form: 勢
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Meaning of 势
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shì
Traditional 勢
- power
- influence
- potential
- momentum
- tendency
- trend
- situation
- conditions
- outward appearance
- sign
- gesture
- male genitals
Radical and structure
- 势
- Radical 力 (Kangxi radical 19) · 8 strokes · 执 on top, 力 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.
Words with 势
- 架势 jià shi attitude; position (on an issue etc)
- 优势 yōu shì superiority; dominance
- 趋势 qū shì trend; tendency
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).