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无数 (wú shù): meaning and stroke order

无数 (wú shù) means countless, numberless, innumerable.

无数

Simplified
无数
Traditional
無數
Pinyin
wú shù

Stroke order of 无数

无

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

Stroke by stroke

数

  • shǔ to count; to count as; to regard as
  • shù number; figure; several; a few
  • shuò (literary) frequently; repeatedly
  • 13 strokes
  • Traditional form: 數

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 无数

  1. wú shù Traditional 無數
    • countless
    • numberless
    • innumerable

Radicals of the characters

无
Radical 无 (Kangxi radical 71) · 4 strokes · 一 on top, 尢 below
数
Radical 攴 (Kangxi radical 66) · 13 strokes · 娄 on the left, 攵 on the right

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.

无数 in our stories

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  • 七百多年前的南宋，有一位叫宋慈的官员，一生审理过无数案件，被后人称为“法医学之父”。

    qībǎi duō nián qián de Nán Sòng yǒu yí wèi jiào Sòng Cí de guānyuán yìshēng shěnlǐ guò wúshù ànjiàn bèi hòurén chēngwéi fǎyīxué zhī fù

    Over seven hundred years ago, in the Southern Song, there was an official named Song Ci who handled countless cases in his life and was later called the father of forensic medicine.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

  • 今天的雷峰塔是后来重建的。每年都有无数游客来到断桥，在雨中撑一把伞，想象一千年前的那次相遇。

    jīntiān de Léifēng Tǎ shì hòulái chóngjiàn de měi nián dōu yǒu wúshù yóukè láidào Duànqiáo zài yǔ zhōng chēng yì bǎ sǎn xiǎngxiàng yìqiān nián qián de nà cì xiāngyù

    Today's Leifeng Pagoda was rebuilt later. Every year countless visitors come to the Broken Bridge, open an umbrella in the rain and imagine that meeting a thousand years ago.

    From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 无数

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).