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Mythic Mandarin

谢 (xiè): meaning and stroke order

谢 (xiè) means to thank, (bound form) to apologize, (bound form) to decline; to refuse.

谢

Simplified
谢
Traditional
謝
Pinyin
xiè

Stroke order of 谢

谢

  • Xiè surname Xie
  • xiè to thank; (bound form) to apologize
  • 12 strokes
  • Traditional form: 謝

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 谢

  1. xiè Traditional 謝
    • to thank
    • (bound form) to apologize
    • (bound form) to decline; to refuse
    • (bound form) (of flowers, leaves etc) to wither
  2. Xiè Traditional 謝
    • surname Xie

Radical and structure

谢
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 12 strokes · 讠 on the left, 射 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 谢

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).