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Mythic Mandarin

室友 (shì yǒu): meaning and stroke order

室友 (shì yǒu) means roommate.

室友

Simplified
室友
Traditional
室友 (same form)
Pinyin
shì yǒu

Stroke order of 室友

室

  • Shì surname Shi
  • shì room; work unit
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

友

  • yǒu friend
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 室友

  1. shì yǒu
    • roommate

Radicals of the characters

室
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 9 strokes · 宀 on top, 至 below
友
Radical 又 (Kangxi radical 29) · 4 strokes · built from 𠂇 and 又

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.

室友 in our stories

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  • 室友拍拍他的肩膀，给他讲了一个故事：从前有个人的羊圈破了个洞，狼叼走了一只羊。

    shìyǒu pāi pāi tā de jiānbǎng gěi tā jiǎng le yí gè gùshi cóngqián yǒu gè rén de yángjuàn pò le gè dòng láng diāo zǒu le yì zhī yáng

    His roommate patted his shoulder and told him a story: once a man's sheepfold had a hole, and a wolf carried off a sheep.

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

  • 十年前，苗立和大学室友钟远在出租屋里写下了第一行代码，两人约定：这家公司永远是“我们的”。

    shí nián qián Miáo Lì hé dàxué shìyǒu Zhōng Yuǎn zài chūzūwū lǐ xiě xià le dì-yī háng dàimǎ liǎng rén yuēdìng zhè jiā gōngsī yǒngyuǎn shì wǒmen de

    Ten years earlier, Miao Li and his university roommate Zhong Yuan wrote their first line of code in a rented room and made a pact: this company would always be "ours".

    From the story The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 室友

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).