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Mythic Mandarin

相比之下 (xiāng bǐ zhī xià): meaning and stroke order

相比之下 (xiāng bǐ zhī xià) means by comparison.

相比之下

Simplified
相比之下
Traditional
相比之下 (same form)
Pinyin
xiāng bǐ zhī xià

Stroke order of 相比之下

相

  • Xiāng surname Xiang
  • xiāng each other; one another
  • xiàng appearance; portrait
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

比

  • Bǐ Belgium; Belgian
  • bī euphemistic variant of 屄[bi1]
  • bǐ to compare; (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun}
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

之

  • zhī (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]); him
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

下

  • xià down; downwards
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 相比之下

  1. xiāng bǐ zhī xià
    • by comparison

Radicals of the characters

相
Radical 目 (Kangxi radical 109) · 9 strokes · 木 on the left, 目 on the right
比
Radical 比 (Kangxi radical 81) · 4 strokes · 匕 on the left, 匕 on the right
之
Radical 丿 (Kangxi radical 4) · 4 strokes
下
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 3 strokes · 一 on top, 卜 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.

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).