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Mythic Mandarin

突围 (tū wéi): meaning and stroke order

突围 (tū wéi) means to break a siege, to break out of an enclosure.

突围

Simplified
突围
Traditional
突圍
Pinyin
tū wéi

Stroke order of 突围

突

  • tū to dash; to move forward quickly
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

围

  • Wéi surname Wei
  • wéi to encircle; to surround
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 圍

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 突围

  1. tū wéi Traditional 突圍
    • to break a siege
    • to break out of an enclosure

Radicals of the characters

突
Radical 穴 (Kangxi radical 116) · 9 strokes · 穴 on top, 犬 below
围
Radical 囗 (Kangxi radical 31) · 7 strokes · built from 囗 and 韦

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.

突围 in our stories

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  • 他们饿了四十六天。赵括带人拼命突围，结果被乱箭射死，赵军全部投降。

    tāmen è le sìshíliù tiān Zhào Kuò dài rén pīnmìng tūwéi jiéguǒ bèi luànjiàn shè sǐ Zhào jūn quánbù tóuxiáng

    They starved for forty-six days. Zhao Kuo led a desperate breakout and was shot dead by a hail of arrows, and the whole Zhao army surrendered.

    From the story Fighting battles on paper HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 突围

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).