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魏国 (Wèi guó): meaning and stroke order

魏国 (Wèi guó) means Wei State (407-225 BC), one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄.

魏国

Simplified
魏国
Traditional
魏國
Pinyin
Wèi guó

Stroke order of 魏国

魏

  • Wèi surname Wei; name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States
  • wèi tower over a palace gateway (old)
  • 17 strokes

Stroke by stroke

国

  • Guó surname Guo
  • guó country; nation; state; (bound form) national
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 國

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 魏国

  1. Wèi guó Traditional 魏國
    • Wei State (407-225 BC), one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄
    • Wei State or Cao Wei 曹魏 (220-265), the most powerful of the Three Kingdoms

Radicals of the characters

魏
Radical 鬼 (Kangxi radical 194) · 18 strokes · 委 on the left, 鬼 on the right
国
Radical 囗 (Kangxi radical 31) · 8 strokes · built from 囗 and 玉

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.

魏国 in our stories

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  • 惠子做过魏国的宰相，喜欢讲逻辑，什么事都要问个为什么；庄子却宁可当一只在泥里自由爬的乌龟，也不愿意做官。

    Huìzǐ zuò guò Wèiguó de zǎixiàng xǐhuan jiǎng luójí shénme shì dōu yào wèn gè wèishénme Zhuāngzǐ què nìngkě dāng yì zhī zài ní lǐ zìyóu pá de wūguī yě bú yuànyì zuòguān

    Huizi had been chancellor of Wei and loved logic; he had to ask why about everything. Zhuangzi, by contrast, would rather be a tortoise crawling freely in the mud than become an official.

    From the story The happiness of fish HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 魏国

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).