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演奏 (yǎn zòu): meaning and stroke order

演奏 (yǎn zòu) means to perform on a musical instrument.

演奏

Simplified
演奏
Traditional
演奏 (same form)
Pinyin
yǎn zòu

Stroke order of 演奏

演

  • yǎn to perform (a play etc); to stage (a show); (bound form) to develop; to play out; to carry out (a task)
  • 14 strokes

Stroke by stroke

奏

  • zòu to play music; to achieve
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 演奏

  1. yǎn zòu
    • to perform on a musical instrument

Radicals of the characters

演
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 14 strokes · 氵 on the left, 寅 on the right
奏
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 9 strokes · 𡗗 on top, 天 below

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.

演奏 in our stories

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  • 这个故事被称为中国的“罗密欧与朱丽叶”，后来还被写成了著名的小提琴协奏曲“梁祝”，直到今天，还常常在音乐会上演奏。

    zhè gè gùshi bèi chēngwéi Zhōngguó de Luómì'ōu yǔ Zhūlìyè hòulái hái bèi xiě chéng le zhùmíng de xiǎotíqín xiézòuqǔ Liáng-Zhù zhídào jīntiān hái chángcháng zài yīnyuèhuì shàng yǎnzòu

    This story is called China's Romeo and Juliet; it was later made into the famous violin concerto The Butterfly Lovers, which is still often played in concerts today.

    From the story The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 演奏

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).