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Mythic Mandarin

凶手 (xiōng shǒu): meaning and stroke order

凶手 (xiōng shǒu) means murderer, assassin.

凶手

Simplified
凶手
Traditional
兇手
Pinyin
xiōng shǒu

Stroke order of 凶手

凶

  • xiōng terrible; fearful
  • xiōng vicious; fierce
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 兇

Stroke by stroke

手

  • shǒu hand; (formal) to hold
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 凶手

  1. xiōng shǒu Traditional 兇手
    • murderer
    • assassin

Radicals of the characters

凶
Radical 凵 (Kangxi radical 17) · 4 strokes · built from 凵 and 㐅
手
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 4 strokes

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.

凶手 in our stories

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  • 死者的钱袋还挂在腰上，衣服也完好，显然，凶手并非为了钱。

    sǐzhě de qiándài hái guà zài yāo shàng yīfu yě wánhǎo xiǎnrán xiōngshǒu bìngfēi wèile qián

    The dead man's purse still hung at his waist and his clothes were intact; clearly the killer had not been after money.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 凶手

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).