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影子 (yǐng zi): meaning and stroke order

影子 (yǐng zi) means shadow, reflection, (fig.) hint, indication, influence, 个.

影子

Simplified
影子
Traditional
影子 (same form)
Pinyin
yǐng zi

Stroke order of 影子

影

  • yǐng picture; image
  • 15 strokes

Stroke by stroke

子

  • zǐ son; child
  • zi noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 影子

  1. yǐng zi
    • shadow
    • reflection
    • (fig.) hint
    • indication
    • influence
    • CL:個|个[ge4]

Radicals of the characters

影
Radical 彡 (Kangxi radical 59) · 15 strokes · 景 on the left, 彡 on the right
子
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 3 strokes · built from 了 and 一

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.

影子 in our stories

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  • 乐广听说后，回到那天喝酒的地方，抬头一看，墙上挂着一张弓，弓上画着蛇的花纹，影子正好映在酒杯里。

    Yuè Guǎng tīngshuō hòu huídào nà tiān hē jiǔ de dìfang tái tóu yí kàn qiáng shàng guà zhe yì zhāng gōng gōng shàng huà zhe shé de huāwén yǐngzi zhènghǎo yìng zài jiǔbēi lǐ

    When Yue Guang heard, he went back to where they had been drinking and looked up: on the wall hung a bow painted with a snake pattern, and its reflection fell right into the wine cup.

    From the story The bow's reflection in the cup HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 其他镰刀上，却毫无苍蝇的影子。

    qítā liándāo shàng què háowú cāngying de yǐngzi

    On the other sickles there was not a single fly.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 影子

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).