虾 (xiā): meaning and stroke order
虾 (xiā) means shrimp, prawn, used in 虾蟆.
虾
- Simplified
- 虾
- Traditional
- 蝦
- Pinyin
- xiā · há
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Stroke order of 虾
虾
- há used in 蝦蟆|虾蟆[ha2 ma5]
- xiā shrimp; prawn
- 9 strokes
- Traditional form: 蝦
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Meaning of 虾
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xiā
Traditional 蝦
- shrimp
- prawn
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há
Traditional 蝦
- used in 蝦蟆|虾蟆[ha2 ma5]
Radical and structure
- 虾
- Radical 虫 (Kangxi radical 142) · 9 strokes · 虫 on the left, 下 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.
Words with 虾
- 虾兵蟹将 xiā bīng xiè jiàng shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea); useless troops (idiom)
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).