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无处 (wú chù): meaning and stroke order

无处 (wú chù) means nowhere.

无处

Simplified
无处
Traditional
無處
Pinyin
wú chù

Stroke order of 无处

无

  • mó used in 南無|南无[na1 mo2]
  • wú not to have; no
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 無

Stroke by stroke

处

  • chǔ to reside; to live
  • chù (bound form) place; locality; (bound form) part; aspect
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 處

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 无处

  1. wú chù Traditional 無處
    • nowhere

Radicals of the characters

无
Radical 无 (Kangxi radical 71) · 4 strokes · 一 on top, 尢 below
处
Radical 夂 (Kangxi radical 34) · 5 strokes · built from 夂 and 卜

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.

无处 in our stories

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  • 那一年，天下大旱，太阳像一团火挂在天上，河水干涸，庄稼枯死，人们热得无处躲藏。

    nà yì nián tiānxià dàhàn tàiyáng xiàng yì tuán huǒ guà zài tiān shàng héshuǐ gānhé zhuāngjia kūsǐ rénmen rè de wúchù duǒcáng

    That year a great drought struck the world: the sun hung in the sky like a ball of fire, the rivers dried up, the crops withered, and people had nowhere to hide from the heat.

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 无处

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).