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Mythic Mandarin

太平 (Tài píng): meaning and stroke order

太平 (Tài píng) means place name, peace and security.

太平

Simplified
太平
Traditional
太平 (same form)
Pinyin
Tài píng

Stroke order of 太平

太

  • tài highest; greatest
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

平

  • Píng surname Ping
  • píng flat; level
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 太平

  1. Tài píng
    • place name
  2. tài píng
    • peace and security

Radicals of the characters

太
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 4 strokes · built from 大 and 丶
平
Radical 干 (Kangxi radical 51) · 5 strokes · built from 干 and 丷

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.

太平 in our stories

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  • 人们相信，只有世界太平、有伟大的人出生的时候，麒麟才会出现。

    rénmen xiāngxìn zhǐyǒu shìjiè tàipíng yǒu wěidà de rén chūshēng de shíhou qílín cái huì chūxiàn

    People believed that the qilin appeared only when the world was at peace and a great person was born.

    From the story The qilin HSK 4

Stories using 太平

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).