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Mythic Mandarin

原形 (yuán xíng): meaning and stroke order

原形 (yuán xíng) means original shape, true appearance (under the disguise), true character.

原形

Simplified
原形
Traditional
原形 (same form)
Pinyin
yuán xíng

Stroke order of 原形

原

  • Yuán surname Yuan; (Japanese surname) Hara
  • yuán former; original
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

形

  • xíng to appear; to look
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 原形

  1. yuán xíng
    • original shape
    • true appearance (under the disguise)
    • true character

Radicals of the characters

原
Radical 厂 (Kangxi radical 27) · 10 strokes
形
Radical 彡 (Kangxi radical 59) · 7 strokes · 开 on the left, 彡 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.

原形 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 不料，酒一下肚，她就现出了原形：一条巨大的白蛇盘在床上。许仙掀开帐子一看，当场被吓死了。

    búliào jiǔ yí xiàdù tā jiù xiàn chū le yuánxíng yì tiáo jùdà de báishé pán zài chuángshang Xǔ Xiān xiānkāi zhàngzi yí kàn dāngchǎng bèi xià sǐ le

    Unexpectedly, as soon as the wine was down she reverted to her true form: a huge white snake coiled on the bed. Xu Xian pulled back the bed curtains, looked, and died of fright on the spot.

    From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 原形

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).