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膝盖 (xī gài): meaning and stroke order

膝盖 (xī gài) means knee, (Internet slang) to kneel down (in admiration).

膝盖

Simplified
膝盖
Traditional
膝蓋
Pinyin
xī gài

Stroke order of 膝盖

膝

  • xī old variant of 膝[xi1]
  • xī knee
  • 15 strokes
  • Traditional form: 厀

Stroke by stroke

盖

  • Gě surname Ge
  • gài lid; top
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 蓋

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 膝盖

  1. xī gài Traditional 膝蓋
    • knee
    • (Internet slang) to kneel down (in admiration)

Radicals of the characters

膝
Radical 肉 (Kangxi radical 130) · 15 strokes · 月 on the left, 桼 on the right
盖
Radical 皿 (Kangxi radical 108) · 11 strokes · 𦍌 on top, 皿 below

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.

膝盖 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 她到处找老鲁，想当面说声谢谢，却看见他坐在医疗帐篷里，膝盖上敷着冰袋。

    tā dàochù zhǎo Lǎo Lǔ xiǎng dāngmiàn shuō shēng xièxie què kànjiàn tā zuò zài yīliáo zhàngpeng lǐ xīgài shàng fū zhe bīngdài

    She looked everywhere for Old Lu to thank him in person, and found him sitting in the medical tent with an ice pack on his knee.

    From the story The four-hour balloon HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 膝盖

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).