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Mythic Mandarin

严重 (yán zhòng): meaning and stroke order

严重 (yán zhòng) means grave; serious; severe; critical.

严重

Simplified
严重
Traditional
嚴重
Pinyin
yán zhòng

Stroke order of 严重

严

  • Yán surname Yan
  • yán tight (closely sealed); stern
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 嚴

Stroke by stroke

重

  • chóng to repeat; repetition
  • zhòng heavy; serious
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 严重

  1. yán zhòng Traditional 嚴重
    • grave; serious; severe; critical

Radicals of the characters

严
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 7 strokes · 亚 on top, 丿 below
重
Radical 里 (Kangxi radical 166) · 9 strokes · built from 𢆍 and 二

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.

严重 in our stories

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  • 医生说这是阿尔茨海默病，会越来越严重，没有办法治好。

    yīshēng shuō zhè shì Ā'ěrcíhǎimòbìng huì yuèláiyuè yánzhòng méiyǒu bànfǎ zhì hǎo

    The doctor said it was Alzheimer's disease; it would get worse and worse and could not be cured.

    From the story The song in the thunderstorm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 那是一个波兰女人，叫玛尔塔。她的氧气已经用完，出现了严重的高原反应，说话含糊不清，连自己在哪儿都不知道。

    nà shì yí gè Bōlán nǚrén jiào Mǎ'ěrtǎ tā de yǎngqì yǐjīng yòngwán chūxiàn le yánzhòng de gāoyuán fǎnyìng shuōhuà hánhubùqīng lián zìjǐ zài nǎr dōu bù zhīdao

    She was a Polish woman named Marta. Her oxygen had run out and she had severe altitude sickness; her speech was slurred and she didn't even know where she was.

    From the story Two hundred metres from the summit HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 严重

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).