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Mythic Mandarin

宰相 (zǎi xiàng): meaning and stroke order

宰相 (zǎi xiàng) means prime minister (in feudal China).

宰相

Simplified
宰相
Traditional
宰相 (same form)
Pinyin
zǎi xiàng

Stroke order of 宰相

宰

  • zǎi to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc); (coll.) to fleece; to rip off; to overcharge
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

相

  • Xiāng surname Xiang
  • xiāng each other; one another
  • xiàng appearance; portrait
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 宰相

  1. zǎi xiàng
    • prime minister (in feudal China)

Radicals of the characters

宰
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 10 strokes · 宀 on top, 辛 below
相
Radical 目 (Kangxi radical 109) · 9 strokes · 木 on the left, 目 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.

宰相 in our stories

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  • 惠子做过魏国的宰相，喜欢讲逻辑，什么事都要问个为什么；庄子却宁可当一只在泥里自由爬的乌龟，也不愿意做官。

    Huìzǐ zuò guò Wèiguó de zǎixiàng xǐhuan jiǎng luójí shénme shì dōu yào wèn gè wèishénme Zhuāngzǐ què nìngkě dāng yì zhī zài ní lǐ zìyóu pá de wūguī yě bú yuànyì zuòguān

    Huizi had been chancellor of Wei and loved logic; he had to ask why about everything. Zhuangzi, by contrast, would rather be a tortoise crawling freely in the mud than become an official.

    From the story The happiness of fish HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 宰相

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).