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Mythic Mandarin

听起来 (tīng qi lai): meaning and stroke order

听起来 (tīng qi lai) means to sound like.

听起来

Simplified
听起来
Traditional
聽起來
Pinyin
tīng qi lai

Stroke order of 听起来

听

  • yǐn smile (archaic)
  • tīng to listen to; to hear; to heed; to obey
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 聽

Stroke by stroke

起

  • qǐ to rise; to raise
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

来

  • lái to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 來

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 听起来

  1. tīng qi lai Traditional 聽起來
    • to sound like

Radicals of the characters

听
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 7 strokes · 口 on the left, 斤 on the right
起
Radical 走 (Kangxi radical 156) · 10 strokes · built from 走 and 己
来
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 7 strokes · built from 未 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.

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).