树枝 (shù zhī): meaning and stroke order

树枝 in our stories

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• 她的灵魂化作了精卫鸟。从那天起，她每天从西山衔来一根树枝或一块小石头，飞到东海上，把它扔进海里。

  tā de línghún huàzuò le Jīngwèi niǎo cóng nà tiān qǐ tā měitiān cóng xīshān xián lái yì gēn shùzhī huò yí kuài xiǎo shítou fēi dào Dōng Hǎi shàng bǎ tā rēng jìn hǎi lǐ

  Her soul became the Jingwei bird. From that day on, every day she carried a twig or a pebble in her beak from the western hills, flew over the Eastern Sea and dropped it into the water.

  From the story Jingwei fills the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

• 女士来取碗的时候，眼圈一下子红了：“我母亲生前最喜欢梅花。”庞师傅笑了笑，说他并不知道，只是觉得裂缝的形状像一根树枝。

  nǚshì lái qǔ wǎn de shíhou yǎnquān yíxiàzi hóng le wǒ mǔqīn shēngqián zuì xǐhuan méihuā Páng shīfu xiào le xiào shuō tā bìng bù zhīdao zhǐshì juéde lièfèng de xíngzhuàng xiàng yì gēn shùzhī

  When the woman came for the bowl, her eyes reddened at once: "My mother loved plum blossom more than anything." Master Pang smiled and said he hadn't known; he had just thought the cracks looked like a branch.

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

• “问题是他家那棵柿子树，一半的树枝都伸到了我家院子里。秋天落叶，把我家的排水沟堵得死死的；熟透的柿子掉下来，砸在玻璃顶上，砰砰响，半夜都能把人吓醒。”

  wèntí shì tā jiā nà kē shìzishù yíbàn de shùzhī dōu shēn dào le wǒ jiā yuànzi lǐ qiūtiān luò yè bǎ wǒ jiā de páishuǐgōu dǔ de sǐsǐ de shútòu de shìzi diào xiàlai zá zài bōli dǐng shàng pēngpēng xiǎng bànyè dōu néng bǎ rén xià xǐng

  "The problem is his persimmon tree: half its branches reach into my garden. In autumn the leaves block my drains solid, and ripe persimmons drop onto the glass roof—bang, bang—loud enough to scare you awake at midnight."

  From the story The persimmon tree over the wall HSK 7–9 · Level 9