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Mythic Mandarin

相遇 (xiāng yù): meaning and stroke order

相遇 (xiāng yù) means to meet, to encounter, to come across.

相遇

Simplified
相遇
Traditional
相遇 (same form)
Pinyin
xiāng yù

Stroke order of 相遇

相

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

Stroke by stroke

遇

  • Yù surname Yu
  • yù (bound form) to encounter; to happen upon; to meet unplanned; (bound form) to treat; to receive
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 相遇

  1. xiāng yù
    • to meet
    • to encounter
    • to come across

Radicals of the characters

相
Radical 目 (Kangxi radical 109) · 9 strokes · 木 on the left, 目 on the right
遇
Radical 辵 (Kangxi radical 162) · 13 strokes · built from 辶 and 禺

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.

相遇 in our stories

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  • 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 相遇

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).