凶 (xiōng): meaning and stroke order
凶 (xiōng) means terrible, fearful, vicious, fierce, ominous, inauspicious, famine, variant of 凶.
凶
- Simplified
- 凶
- Traditional
- 兇, 凶
- Pinyin
- xiōng
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Stroke order of 凶
凶
- xiōng terrible; fearful
- xiōng vicious; fierce
- 4 strokes
- Traditional form: 兇
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Meaning of 凶
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xiōng
Traditional 兇
- terrible
- fearful
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xiōng
- vicious
- fierce
- ominous
- inauspicious
- famine
- variant of 兇|凶[xiong1]
Radical and structure
- 凶
- Radical 凵 (Kangxi radical 17) · 4 strokes · built from 凵 and 㐅
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 凶
- 凶器 xiōng qì lethal weapon; murder weapon
- 凶手 xiōng shǒu murderer; assassin
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).