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Mythic Mandarin

数 (shù): meaning and stroke order

数 (shù) means number; figure, several; a few, to count, to count as; to regard as, to enumerate; to list.

数

Simplified
数
Traditional
數
Pinyin
shù · shǔ · shuò

Stroke order of 数

数

  • shǔ to count; to count as; to regard as
  • shù number; figure; several; a few
  • shuò (literary) frequently; repeatedly
  • 13 strokes
  • Traditional form: 數

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 数

  1. shù Traditional 數
    • number; figure
    • several; a few
  2. shǔ Traditional 數
    • to count
    • to count as; to regard as
    • to enumerate; to list
  3. shuò Traditional 數
    • (literary) frequently; repeatedly

Radical and structure

数
Radical 攴 (Kangxi radical 66) · 13 strokes · 娄 on the left, 攵 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 数

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).