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Mythic Mandarin

造 (zào): meaning and stroke order

造 (zào) means to make, to build, to manufacture, to invent, to fabricate, to go to.

造

Simplified
造
Traditional
造 (same form)
Pinyin
zào

Stroke order of 造

造

  • zào to make; to build
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 造

  1. zào
    • to make
    • to build
    • to manufacture
    • to invent
    • to fabricate
    • to go to
    • party (in a lawsuit or legal agreement)
    • crop
    • classifier for crops

Radical and structure

造
Radical 辵 (Kangxi radical 162) · 11 strokes · built from 辶 and 告

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 造

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).