损 (sǔn): meaning and stroke order
损 (sǔn) means to decrease; to lose, to damage; to harm, (coll.) to ridicule; to deride.
损
- Simplified
- 损
- Traditional
- 損
- Pinyin
- sǔn
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Stroke order of 损
损
- sǔn to decrease; to lose; to damage; to harm
- 10 strokes
- Traditional form: 損
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Meaning of 损
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sǔn
Traditional 損
- to decrease; to lose
- to damage; to harm
- (coll.) to ridicule; to deride
- (coll.) caustic; sarcastic; nasty; mean
- one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes: ䷨
Radical and structure
- 损
- Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 10 strokes · 扌 on the left, 员 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 损
- 损失 sǔn shī loss; damage
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).