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引体向上 (yǐn tǐ xiàng shàng): meaning and stroke order

引体向上 (yǐn tǐ xiàng shàng) means chin-up (physical exercise).

引体向上

Simplified
引体向上
Traditional
引體向上
Pinyin
yǐn tǐ xiàng shàng

Stroke order of 引体向上

引

  • yǐn to draw (e.g. a bow); to pull
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

体

  • tī used in 體己|体己[ti1 ji5]; Taiwan pr. [ti3]
  • tǐ body; form
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 體

Stroke by stroke

向

  • Xiàng surname Xiang
  • xiàng towards; to face
  • xiàng to tend toward; to guide
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 嚮

Stroke by stroke

上

  • shǎng used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1]
  • shàng (bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts)
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 引体向上

  1. yǐn tǐ xiàng shàng Traditional 引體向上
    • chin-up (physical exercise)

Radicals of the characters

引
Radical 弓 (Kangxi radical 57) · 4 strokes · 弓 on the left, 丨 on the right
体
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 7 strokes · 亻 on the left, 本 on the right
向
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 6 strokes
上
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 3 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.

引体向上 in our stories

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  • 公司的同事吴迪很爱开玩笑，他说女孩子连一个引体向上都做不了。

    gōngsī de tóngshì Wú Dí hěn ài kāi wánxiào tā shuō nǚháizi lián yí gè yǐntǐ xiàngshàng dōu zuò bú le

    Wu Di, a colleague at the office, loved to joke. He said girls couldn't even do a single pull-up.

    From the story Pull-ups HSK 4

Stories using 引体向上

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).