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Mythic Mandarin

四肢 (sì zhī): meaning and stroke order

四肢 (sì zhī) means the four limbs of the body.

四肢

Simplified
四肢
Traditional
四肢 (same form)
Pinyin
sì zhī

Stroke order of 四肢

四

  • sì four; 4
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

肢

  • zhī limb
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 四肢

  1. sì zhī
    • the four limbs of the body

Radicals of the characters

四
Radical 囗 (Kangxi radical 31) · 5 strokes · built from 囗 and 儿
肢
Radical 肉 (Kangxi radical 130) · 8 strokes · 月 on the left, 支 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.

四肢 in our stories

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  • 他的左眼变成了太阳，右眼变成了月亮，四肢化作了高山，血液流成了江河。

    tā de zuǒ yǎn biànchéng le tàiyáng yòu yǎn biànchéng le yuèliang sìzhī huàzuò le gāoshān xuèyè liú chéng le jiānghé

    His left eye became the sun, his right eye the moon; his limbs turned into mountains and his blood flowed into rivers.

    From the story Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 四肢

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).