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Mythic Mandarin

随从 (suí cóng): meaning and stroke order

随从 (suí cóng) means to accompany, to follow, to attend, entourage, attendant.

随从

Simplified
随从
Traditional
隨從
Pinyin
suí cóng

Stroke order of 随从

随

  • Suí surname Sui
  • suí to follow; to comply with
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 隨

Stroke by stroke

从

  • cóng variant of 從|从[cong2]
  • Cóng surname Cong
  • cóng from; through; via; (bound form) to follow
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 從

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 随从

  1. suí cóng Traditional 隨從
    • to accompany
    • to follow
    • to attend
    • entourage
    • attendant

Radicals of the characters

随
Radical 阜 (Kangxi radical 170) · 11 strokes · 阝 on the left, 迶 on the right
从
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 4 strokes · 人 on the left, 人 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.

随从 in our stories

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  • 随从介子推悄悄走到一边，从自己的腿上割下一块肉，煮成汤端给了他。

    suícóng Jiè Zǐtuī qiāoqiāo zǒu dào yìbiān cóng zìjǐ de tuǐ shàng gē xià yí kuài ròu zhǔ chéng tāng duān gěi le tā

    His follower Jie Zitui quietly stepped aside, cut a piece of flesh from his own thigh, and brought it to him boiled into a soup.

    From the story Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 随从

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).