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星星 (xīng xing): meaning and stroke order

星星 (xīng xing) means (coll.) a star; the stars in the sky.

星星

Simplified
星星
Traditional
星星 (same form)
Pinyin
xīng xing

Stroke order of 星星

星

  • xīng star; heavenly body
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

星

  • xīng star; heavenly body
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 星星

  1. xīng xing
    • (coll.) a star; the stars in the sky

Radicals of the characters

星
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 9 strokes · 日 on top, 生 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.

星星 in our stories

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  • 可是他觉得还不够漂亮,就加了很多花、星星和小动物。

    kěshì tā juéde hái bú gòu piàoliang jiù jiā le hěn duō huā xīngxing hé xiǎo dòngwù

    But he thinks it isn't pretty enough, so he adds lots of flowers, stars and little animals.

    From the story Drawing legs on a snake HSK 3

  • 他的头发变成了天上的星星,皮肤上的汗毛化作了大地上的草木。

    tā de tóufa biànchéng le tiān shàng de xīngxing pífū shàng de hànmáo huàzuò le dàdì shàng de cǎomù

    His hair became the stars in the sky, and the fine hairs on his skin became the grass and trees of the earth.

    From the story Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 星星

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).