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Mythic Mandarin

珍惜 (zhēn xī): meaning and stroke order

珍惜 (zhēn xī) means to treasure, to value, to cherish.

珍惜

Simplified
珍惜
Traditional
珍惜 (same form)
Pinyin
zhēn xī

Stroke order of 珍惜

珍

  • zhēn precious thing; treasure
  • zhēn variant of 珍[zhen1]
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 珎

Stroke by stroke

惜

  • xī to cherish; to begrudge
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 珍惜

  1. zhēn xī
    • to treasure
    • to value
    • to cherish

Radicals of the characters

珍
Radical 玉 (Kangxi radical 96) · 9 strokes · 𤣩 on the left, 㐱 on the right
惜
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 11 strokes · 忄 on the left, 昔 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.

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).