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Mythic Mandarin

约定 (yuē dìng): meaning and stroke order

约定 (yuē dìng) means to agree on sth (after discussion), to conclude a bargain, to arrange, to promise.

约定

Simplified
约定
Traditional
約定
Pinyin
yuē dìng

Stroke order of 约定

约

  • yāo to weigh in a balance or on a scale
  • yuē to make an appointment; to invite
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 約

Stroke by stroke

定

  • dìng to fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc)
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 约定

  1. yuē dìng Traditional 約定
    • to agree on sth (after discussion)
    • to conclude a bargain
    • to arrange
    • to promise
    • to stipulate
    • to make an appointment
    • stipulated (time, amount, quality etc)
    • an arrangement
    • a deal
    • appointment
    • undertaking
    • commitment
    • understanding
    • engagement
    • stipulation

Radicals of the characters

约
Radical 纟 (Kangxi radical 120) in its simplified form · 6 strokes · 纟 on the left, 勺 on the right
定
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 8 strokes · 宀 on top, 𤴓 below

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.

约定 in our stories

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  • 十年前，苗立和大学室友钟远在出租屋里写下了第一行代码，两人约定：这家公司永远是“我们的”。

    shí nián qián Miáo Lì hé dàxué shìyǒu Zhōng Yuǎn zài chūzūwū lǐ xiě xià le dì-yī háng dàimǎ liǎng rén yuēdìng zhè jiā gōngsī yǒngyuǎn shì wǒmen de

    Ten years earlier, Miao Li and his university roommate Zhong Yuan wrote their first line of code in a rented room and made a pact: this company would always be "ours".

    From the story The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 约定

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).