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尾巴 (wěi ba): meaning and stroke order

尾巴 (wěi ba) means tail, colloquial pr..

尾巴

Simplified
尾巴
Traditional
尾巴 (same form)
Pinyin
wěi ba

Stroke order of 尾巴

尾

  • wěi tail; remainder
  • yǐ horse's tail; pointed posterior section of a locust etc
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

巴

  • Bā Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan); the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality
  • bā to long for; to wish
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 尾巴

  1. wěi ba
    • tail
    • colloquial pr. [yi3 ba5]

Radicals of the characters

尾
Radical 尸 (Kangxi radical 44) · 7 strokes · built from 尸 and 毛
巴
Radical 己 (Kangxi radical 49) · 4 strokes · built from 巳 and 丨

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.

尾巴 in our stories

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  • 于是它从天上飞下来，把头从窗户伸进叶公的书房，尾巴还拖在客厅里。

    yúshì tā cóng tiān shàng fēi xiàlai bǎ tóu cóng chuānghu shēn jìn Yègōng de shūfáng wěiba hái tuō zài kètīng lǐ

    So it flew down from the sky and poked its head through the window of Lord Ye's study, with its tail still trailing in the hall.

    From the story Lord Ye loves dragons HSK 7–9 · Level 9

  • 艄公说：“每年这个时候，黄河上下的鲤鱼都游到这里来。传说跳过龙门的鱼，天上会降下一团火，烧掉它的尾巴，它才能化为龙。”

    shāogōng shuō měi nián zhège shíhou Huáng Hé shàngxià de lǐyú dōu yóu dào zhèli lái chuánshuō tiào guò Lóngmén de yú tiānshàng huì jiàng xià yì tuán huǒ shāo diào tā de wěiba tā cái néng huà wéi lóng

    The boatman said, "Every year at this time the carp from all along the Yellow River swim here. The legend says that when a fish leaps the gate, a ball of fire comes down from the sky and burns off its tail, and only then can it turn into a dragon."

    From the story The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 尾巴

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).