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修理 (xiū lǐ): meaning and stroke order

修理 (xiū lǐ) means to repair, to fix, to prune, to trim, (coll.) to sort sb out, to fix sb.

修理

Simplified
修理
Traditional
修理 (same form)
Pinyin
xiū lǐ

Stroke order of 修理

修

  • Xiū surname Xiu
  • xiū to decorate; to embellish
  • xiū variant of 修[xiu1]
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 脩

Stroke by stroke

理

  • lǐ texture; grain (of wood)
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 修理

  1. xiū lǐ
    • to repair
    • to fix
    • to prune
    • to trim
    • (coll.) to sort sb out
    • to fix sb

Radicals of the characters

修
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 10 strokes
理
Radical 玉 (Kangxi radical 96) · 11 strokes · 𤣩 on the left, 里 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.

修理 in our stories

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  • 单子上写着：“海兴号”船底有裂缝，必须马上修理。可是在下面，公司老板用红笔批了两个字：“缓修。”

    dānzi shàng xiě zhe Hǎixīng hào chuándǐ yǒu lièfèng bìxū mǎshàng xiūlǐ kěshì zài xiàmiàn gōngsī lǎobǎn yòng hóng bǐ pī le liǎng gè zì huǎn xiū

    It said the Haixing's hull was cracked and had to be repaired at once. But underneath, the company owner had written two words in red ink: "Delay repair."

    From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 修理

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).