雄 (xióng): meaning and stroke order
雄 (xióng) means male, staminate, grand, imposing, powerful, mighty.
雄
- Simplified
- 雄
- Traditional
- 雄 (same form)
- Pinyin
- xióng
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Stroke order of 雄
雄
- xióng male; staminate
- 12 strokes
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Meaning of 雄
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xióng
- male
- staminate
- grand
- imposing
- powerful
- mighty
- person or state having great power and influence
Radical and structure
- 雄
- Radical 隹 (Kangxi radical 172) · 12 strokes · 厷 on the left, 隹 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 雄
- 英雄 yīng xióng hero; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 雄黄酒 xióng huáng jiǔ realgar wine (traditionally drunk during the Dragon Boat Festival 端午節|端午节[Duan1 wu3 jie2])
雄 in our stories
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它们生下的小鸟，雌的像精卫，雄的像海燕，一直到今天，还在往东海里扔石头。
tāmen shēng xià de xiǎo niǎo cí de xiàng Jīngwèi xióng de xiàng hǎiyàn yìzhí dào jīntiān hái zài wǎng Dōng Hǎi lǐ rēng shítou
Of the chicks they raised, the females looked like Jingwei and the males like the petrel, and to this day they are still dropping stones into the Eastern Sea.
From the story Jingwei fills the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Stories using 雄
- Jingwei fills the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8
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).