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英语 (Yīng yǔ): meaning and stroke order

英语 (Yīng yǔ) means English (language).

英语

Simplified
英语
Traditional
英語
Pinyin
Yīng yǔ

Stroke order of 英语

英

  • Yīng United Kingdom; British
  • yīng hero; outstanding
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

语

  • yǔ dialect; language
  • yù (literary) to tell; to let (sb) know
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 語

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 英语

  1. Yīng yǔ Traditional 英語
    • English (language)

Radicals of the characters

英
Radical 艸 (Kangxi radical 140) · 9 strokes · 艹 on top, 央 below
语
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 9 strokes · 讠 on the left, 吾 on the right

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.

英语 in our stories

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  • 大学三年级的暑假，贺敏报名去云南的一个山村小学做志愿者，教孩子们英语。

    dàxué sān niánjí de shǔjià Hè Mǐn bàomíng qù Yúnnán de yí gè shāncūn xiǎoxué zuò zhìyuànzhě jiāo háizimen Yīngyǔ

    In the summer holidays after her third year at university, He Min signed up as a volunteer at a mountain village school in Yunnan, teaching the children English.

    From the story English on the basketball court HSK 5

  • 画的背面用英语写着：“给岳叔叔，这是你的山顶。”

    huà de bèimiàn yòng Yīngyǔ xiě zhe gěi Yuè shūshu zhè shì nǐ de shāndǐng

    On the back of the drawing, in English, was written: "For Uncle Yue—this is your summit."

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

Stories using 英语

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).