缘故 (yuán gù): meaning and stroke order
缘故 (yuán gù) means reason, cause.
缘故
- Simplified
- 缘故
- Traditional
- 緣故
- Pinyin
- yuán gù
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Stroke order of 缘故
缘
- yuán cause; reason
- 12 strokes
- Traditional form: 緣
Stroke by stroke
故
- gù happening; instance
- 9 strokes
Stroke by stroke
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Meaning of 缘故
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yuán gù
Traditional 緣故
- reason
- cause
Radicals of the characters
- 缘
- Radical 纟 (Kangxi radical 120) in its simplified form · 12 strokes · 纟 on the left, 彖 on the right
- 故
- Radical 攴 (Kangxi radical 66) · 9 strokes · 古 on the left, 攵 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.
Where you learn it
缘故 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 7–9 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.
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).