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Mythic Mandarin

水缸 (shuǐ gāng): meaning and stroke order

水缸 (shuǐ gāng) means water jar.

水缸

Simplified
水缸
Traditional
水缸 (same form)
Pinyin
shuǐ gāng

Stroke order of 水缸

水

  • Shuǐ surname Shui
  • shuǐ water; (after a name) ... River
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

缸

  • gāng jar; vat
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 水缸

  1. shuǐ gāng
    • water jar

Radicals of the characters

水
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 4 strokes
缸
Radical 缶 (Kangxi radical 121) · 9 strokes · 缶 on the left, 工 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.

水缸 in our stories

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  • 有一天，他在田边捡到一只很大的田螺，就把它带回家，养在水缸里。

    yǒu yì tiān tā zài tián biān jiǎn dào yì zhī hěn dà de tiánluó jiù bǎ tā dài huí jiā yǎng zài shuǐgāng lǐ

    One day he found a very large river snail by the field, took it home and kept it in his water jar.

    From the story The river-snail girl HSK 4

Stories using 水缸

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).