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Mythic Mandarin

游动 (yóu dòng): meaning and stroke order

游动 (yóu dòng) means to move about, to go from place to place, roving, mobile.

游动

Simplified
游动
Traditional
游動
Pinyin
yóu dòng

Stroke order of 游动

游

  • Yóu surname You
  • yóu to swim; variant of 遊|游[you2]
  • yóu to walk; to tour
  • 12 strokes
  • Traditional form: 遊

Stroke by stroke

动

  • dòng (of sth) to move; to set in movement
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 動

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 游动

  1. yóu dòng Traditional 游動
    • to move about
    • to go from place to place
    • roving
    • mobile

Radicals of the characters

游
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 12 strokes · 氵 on the left, 斿 on the right
动
Radical 力 (Kangxi radical 19) · 6 strokes · 云 on the left, 力 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.

游动 in our stories

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  • 有个叫乐广的官员请朋友喝酒，朋友端起酒杯，忽然看见杯里有一条小蛇在游动，碍于面子，硬着头皮喝了下去。

    yǒu gè jiào Yuè Guǎng de guānyuán qǐng péngyou hē jiǔ péngyou duān qǐ jiǔbēi hūrán kànjiàn bēi lǐ yǒu yì tiáo xiǎoshé zài yóudòng àiyú miànzi yìngzhe tóupí hē le xiàqu

    An official called Yue Guang invited a friend to drink. Raising his cup, the friend suddenly saw a little snake swimming in it, but to save face he forced himself to drink it down.

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

Stories using 游动

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).