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Mythic Mandarin

则 (zé): meaning and stroke order

则 (zé) means (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then.

则

Simplified
则
Traditional
則
Pinyin
zé

Stroke order of 则

则

  • zé (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 則

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 则

  1. zé Traditional 則
    • (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then
    • (bound form) standard; norm
    • (bound form) principle
    • (literary) to imitate; to follow
    • classifier for written items

Radical and structure

则
Radical 刀 (Kangxi radical 18) · 6 strokes · 贝 on the left, 刂 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.

Words with 则

则 in our stories

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  • 山被撞断了，天空向西北倾斜，日月星辰都滑向了那一边；大地则向东南塌陷，江河的水都向东流去。

    shān bèi zhuàng duàn le tiānkōng xiàng xīběi qīngxié rì yuè xīngchén dōu huá xiàng le nà yìbiān dàdì zé xiàng dōngnán tāxiàn jiānghé de shuǐ dōu xiàng dōng liú qù

    The mountain broke. The sky tilted towards the north-west and the sun, moon and stars slid that way, while the earth sank towards the south-east and all the rivers began to flow east.

    From the story Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 则

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).