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Mythic Mandarin

条 (tiáo): meaning and stroke order

条 (tiáo) means strip, item, article, clause (of law or treaty).

条

Simplified
条
Traditional
條
Pinyin
tiáo

Stroke order of 条

条

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 条

  1. tiáo Traditional 條
    • strip
    • item
    • article
    • clause (of law or treaty)
    • classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)

Radical and structure

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.

Words with 条

  • 天条 tiān tiáo 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]
  • 面条 miàn tiáo noodles
  • 纸条 zhǐ tiáo slip of paper
  • 条件 tiáo jiàn condition; circumstance; term; factor; requirement; prerequisite; qualification
  • 条款 tiáo kuǎn clause (of contract or law); CL:項|项[xiang4]

条 in our stories

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  • 一天，小男孩阿山在山下看见一条很小的龙。

    yì tiān xiǎo nánhái Ā Shān zài shān xià kànjiàn yì tiáo hěn xiǎo de lóng

    One day a little boy called A Shan saw a tiny dragon at the foot of the mountain.

    From the story The little dragon and the rain HSK 2

  • 这一次，它飞过了龙门，天上响起了雷声，它真的变成了一条龙。

    zhè yí cì tā fēi guò le Lóngmén tiān shàng xiǎngqǐ le léishēng tā zhēnde biànchéng le yì tiáo lóng

    This time it flew over the Dragon Gate, thunder rolled across the sky, and it really did become a dragon.

    From the story The little carp's decision HSK 3

  • 问题是，整个城市连一条龙舟都找不到。

    wèntí shì zhěnggè chéngshì lián yì tiáo lóngzhōu dōu zhǎo bú dào

    The problem was that there wasn't a single dragon boat in the whole city.

    From the story Dragon boats in Hamburg HSK 5

Stories using 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).