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Mythic Mandarin

向导 (xiàng dǎo): meaning and stroke order

向导 (xiàng dǎo) means guide.

向导

Simplified
向导
Traditional
嚮導
Pinyin
xiàng dǎo

Stroke order of 向导

向

  • Xiàng surname Xiang
  • xiàng towards; to face
  • xiàng to tend toward; to guide
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 嚮

Stroke by stroke

导

  • dǎo to transmit; to lead
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 導

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 向导

  1. xiàng dǎo Traditional 嚮導
    • guide

Radicals of the characters

向
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 6 strokes
导
Radical 寸 (Kangxi radical 41) · 6 strokes · 巳 on top, 寸 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.

向导 in our stories

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  • 第二年春天，他又来了。这一次天气很好，夏尔巴向导丹增说，这是十年来最好的登顶窗口。

    dì-èr nián chūntiān tā yòu lái le zhè yí cì tiānqì hěn hǎo Xià'ěrbā xiàngdǎo Dānzēng shuō zhè shì shí nián lái zuì hǎo de dēngdǐng chuāngkǒu

    The next spring he came back. This time the weather was fine, and his Sherpa guide Tenzing said it was the best summit window in ten years.

    From the story Two hundred metres from the summit HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 向导

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).