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Mythic Mandarin

性 (xìng): meaning and stroke order

性 (xìng) means nature, character, property, quality, attribute, sexuality, sex, gender.

性

Simplified
性
Traditional
性 (same form)
Pinyin
xìng

Stroke order of 性

性

  • xìng nature; character
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 性

  1. xìng
    • nature
    • character
    • property
    • quality
    • attribute
    • sexuality
    • sex
    • gender
    • suffix forming adjective from verb
    • suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity
    • essence
    • CL:個|个[ge4]

Radical and structure

性
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 8 strokes · 忄 on the left, 生 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 性

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).