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Mythic Mandarin

形成 (xíng chéng): meaning and stroke order

形成 (xíng chéng) means to form; to take shape.

形成

Simplified
形成
Traditional
形成 (same form)
Pinyin
xíng chéng

Stroke order of 形成

形

  • xíng to appear; to look
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

成

  • Chéng surname Cheng; short name for Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1]
  • chéng to succeed; to finish
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 形成

  1. xíng chéng
    • to form; to take shape

Radicals of the characters

形
Radical 彡 (Kangxi radical 59) · 7 strokes · 开 on the left, 彡 on the right
成
Radical 戈 (Kangxi radical 62) · 7 strokes · built from 戊 and 𠃌

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.

形成 in our stories

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  • 他没有带回军队，却带回了西域各国的情况：那里的山川、物产和风俗。后来，一条连接东西的商路慢慢形成了，这就是丝绸之路。

    tā méiyǒu dàihuí jūnduì què dài huí le Xīyù gèguó de qíngkuàng nàli de shānchuān wùchǎn hé fēngsú hòulái yì tiáo liánjiē dōngxi de shānglù mànmàn xíngchéng le zhè jiù shì Sīchóu zhī Lù

    He brought back no army, but he brought back knowledge of the lands of the West: their mountains and rivers, their products and their customs. Later a trade route linking east and west slowly took shape: the Silk Road.

    From the story Zhang Qian's mission to the West HSK 6

Stories using 形成

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).