蟹 (xiè): meaning and stroke order
蟹 (xiè) means crab, variant of 蟹.
蟹
- Simplified
- 蟹
- Traditional
- 蟹, 蠏
- Pinyin
- xiè
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Stroke order of 蟹
蟹
- xiè crab
- xiè variant of 蟹[xie4]
- 19 strokes
- Traditional form: 蠏
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Meaning of 蟹
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xiè
- crab
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xiè
Traditional 蠏
- variant of 蟹[xie4]
Radical and structure
- 蟹
- Radical 虫 (Kangxi radical 142) · 19 strokes · 解 on top, 虫 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.
Words with 蟹
- 虾兵蟹将 xiā bīng xiè jiàng shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea); useless troops (idiom)
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).