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Mythic Mandarin

摇晃 (yáo huàng): meaning and stroke order

摇晃 (yáo huàng) means to rock; to shake; to sway.

摇晃

Simplified
摇晃
Traditional
搖晃
Pinyin
yáo huàng

Stroke order of 摇晃

摇

  • Yáo surname Yao
  • yáo to shake; to rock
  • 13 strokes
  • Traditional form: 搖

Stroke by stroke

晃

  • huǎng variant of 晃[huang3]
  • huǎng to dazzle; to flash past
  • huàng to sway; to shake
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 㨪

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 摇晃

  1. yáo huàng Traditional 搖晃
    • to rock; to shake; to sway

Radicals of the characters

摇
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 13 strokes · 扌 on the left, 䍃 on the right
晃
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 10 strokes · 日 on top, 光 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.

摇晃 in our stories

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  • 没想到，这条红绫是一件宝物，轻轻一摆，海水就翻起了巨浪，连海底的龙宫也摇晃起来。

    méi xiǎngdào zhè tiáo hóng líng shì yí jiàn bǎowù qīngqīng yì bǎi hǎishuǐ jiù fān qǐ le jùlàng lián hǎidǐ de lónggōng yě yáohuàng qǐlai

    He had no idea the sash was a magic treasure: at one light swish the sea rose in huge waves, and even the Dragon Palace on the seabed began to shake.

    From the story Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 摇晃

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).