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宣读 (xuān dú): meaning and stroke order

宣读 (xuān dú) means to read out loud to an audience, a prepared speech (e.g. to a party conference).

宣读

Simplified
宣读
Traditional
宣讀
Pinyin
xuān dú

Stroke order of 宣读

宣

  • Xuān surname Xuan
  • xuān to declare (publicly); to announce
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

读

  • dòu comma; phrase marked by pause
  • dú to read out; to read aloud; to read
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 讀

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 宣读

  1. xuān dú Traditional 宣讀
    • to read out loud to an audience
    • a prepared speech (e.g. to a party conference)

Radicals of the characters

宣
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 9 strokes · 宀 on top, 亘 below
读
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 10 strokes · 讠 on the left, 卖 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.

宣读 in our stories

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  • 远房舅公去世以后，律师宣读了他的遗嘱：房子给了女儿，存款捐给了学校，给聂川的，只有一个上了锁的旧木箱。

    yuǎnfáng jiùgōng qùshì yǐhòu lǜshī xuāndú le tā de yízhǔ fángzi gěi le nǚ'ér cúnkuǎn juān gěi le xuéxiào gěi Niè Chuān de zhǐ yǒu yí gè shàng le suǒ de jiù mùxiāng

    After his distant great-uncle died, the lawyer read out the will: the house went to his daughter, the savings to a school, and to Nie Chuan, only an old locked wooden box.

    From the story Great-uncle's wooden box HSK 6

Stories using 宣读

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).