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Mythic Mandarin

谣言 (yáo yán): meaning and stroke order

谣言 (yáo yán) means rumor.

谣言

Simplified
谣言
Traditional
謠言
Pinyin
yáo yán

Stroke order of 谣言

谣

  • yáo popular ballad; rumor
  • yáo variant of 謠|谣[yao2]
  • 12 strokes
  • Traditional form: 謠

Stroke by stroke

言

  • yán words; speech
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 谣言

  1. yáo yán Traditional 謠言
    • rumor

Radicals of the characters

谣
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 12 strokes · 讠 on the left, 䍃 on the right
言
Radical 言 (Kangxi radical 149) · 7 strokes

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.

谣言 in our stories

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  • 秦国着急了，就派人在赵国散布谣言：“秦军根本不怕廉颇，最怕的是赵奢的儿子赵括！”

    Qínguó zháojí le jiù pài rén zài Zhàoguó sànbù yáoyán Qín jūn gēnběn bú pà Lián Pō zuì pà de shì Zhào Shē de érzi Zhào Kuò

    Qin grew impatient and sent people to spread a rumour in Zhao: "The Qin army isn't afraid of Lian Po at all; what it fears most is Zhao She's son, Zhao Kuo!"

    From the story Fighting battles on paper HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 谣言

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).