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Mythic Mandarin

狱 (yù): meaning and stroke order

狱 (yù) means prison.

狱

Simplified
狱
Traditional
獄
Pinyin
yù

Stroke order of 狱

狱

  • yù prison
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 獄

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 狱

  1. yù Traditional 獄
    • prison

Radical and structure

狱
Radical 犬 (Kangxi radical 94) · 9 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.

Words with 狱

狱 in our stories

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  • 这就是历史上有名的“乌台诗案”。他在狱中关了一百三十天，好几次以为自己要被处死，甚至给弟弟写好了诀别诗。

    zhè jiùshì lìshǐ shàng yǒumíng de Wūtái Shī'àn tā zài yù zhōng guān le yìbǎisānshí tiān hǎojǐ cì yǐwéi zìjǐ yào bèi chǔsǐ shènzhì gěi dìdi xiě hǎo le juébié shī

    This is the famous "Crow Terrace Poetry Case". He was held for 130 days, several times believed he would be executed, and even wrote farewell poems to his brother.

    From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 狱

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).