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Mythic Mandarin

天条 (tiān tiáo): meaning and stroke order

天条 (tiān tiáo) means heavenly decree; divine commandment; (fig.) unbreakable taboo; absolute edict (often….

天条

Simplified
天条
Traditional
天條
Pinyin
tiān tiáo

Stroke order of 天条

天

  • tiān day; sky
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

条

  • tiáo strip; item
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 條

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 天条

  1. tiān tiáo Traditional 天條
    • heavenly decree; divine commandment; (fig.) unbreakable taboo; absolute edict (often humorous or sarcastic)
    • prohibition decrees of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 太平天國|太平天国[Tai4 ping2 Tian1 guo2]

Radicals of the characters

天
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 4 strokes · 一 on top, 大 below
条
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 7 strokes · 夂 on top, 木 below

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.

天条 in our stories

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  • 第二天，他得意地去砸袁守诚的招牌，袁守诚却冷冷地说：“你违抗天条，私改雨量，明天午时三刻，就要被斩了。”

    dì-èr tiān tā déyì de qù zá Yuán Shǒuchéng de zhāopai Yuán Shǒuchéng què lěnglěng de shuō nǐ wéikàng tiāntiáo sī gǎi yǔliàng míngtiān wǔshí sān kè jiù yào bèi zhǎn le

    The next day he went smugly to smash the fortune-teller's sign, but Yuan Shoucheng said coldly, "You have defied the laws of heaven and altered the rain on your own authority. Tomorrow at a quarter past the hour of the Horse, you will be beheaded."

    From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 天条

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).