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西湖 (Xī hú): meaning and stroke order

西湖 (Xī hú) means Xihu or West lake (place name), West Lake in Hangzhou 杭州, Zhejiang.

西湖

Simplified
西湖
Traditional
西湖 (same form)
Pinyin
Xī hú

Stroke order of 西湖

西

  • Xī the West; abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2]
  • xī west
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

湖

  • hú lake
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 西湖

  1. Xī hú
    • Xihu or West lake (place name)
    • West Lake in Hangzhou 杭州, Zhejiang
    • Xihu or Hsihu township in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县[Miao2 li4 xian4], northwest Taiwan

Radicals of the characters

西
Radical 襾 (Kangxi radical 146) · 6 strokes · 一 on top, 𠁤 below
湖
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 12 strokes · 氵 on the left, 胡 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.

西湖 in our stories

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  • 她向往人间的生活，就带着修炼了五百年的青蛇小青，来到了风景如画的杭州西湖。

    tā xiàngwǎng rénjiān de shēnghuó jiù dài zhe xiūliàn le wǔbǎi nián de qīngshé Xiǎoqīng láidào le fēngjǐng rú huà de Hángzhōu Xī Hú

    Longing for life among humans, she took the Green Snake, Xiaoqing, who had cultivated for five hundred years, and came to West Lake in picturesque Hangzhou.

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

Stories using 西湖

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).