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小腿 (xiǎo tuǐ): meaning and stroke order

小腿 (xiǎo tuǐ) means lower leg (from knee to ankle), shank.

小腿

Simplified
小腿
Traditional
小腿 (same form)
Pinyin
xiǎo tuǐ

Stroke order of 小腿

小

  • xiǎo small; tiny
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

腿

  • tuǐ leg; CL:條|条[tiao2]
  • tuǐ hip bone; old variant of 腿[tui3]
  • 13 strokes
  • Traditional form: 骽

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 小腿

  1. xiǎo tuǐ
    • lower leg (from knee to ankle)
    • shank

Radicals of the characters

小
Radical 小 (Kangxi radical 42) · 3 strokes
腿
Radical 肉 (Kangxi radical 130) · 13 strokes · 月 on the left, 退 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.

小腿 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 可是到了三十公里，她的腿突然变得像灌了铅一样沉，小腿开始抽筋。跑友们管这叫“撞墙”。

    kěshì dào le sānshí gōnglǐ tā de tuǐ tūrán biànde xiàng guàn le qiān yíyàng chén xiǎotuǐ kāishǐ chōujīn pǎoyǒu men guǎn zhè jiào zhuàngqiáng

    But at thirty kilometres her legs suddenly felt as heavy as lead and her calves began to cramp. Runners call this "hitting the wall".

    From the story The four-hour balloon HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 小腿

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).