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Mythic Mandarin

正常 (zhèng cháng): meaning and stroke order

正常 (zhèng cháng) means regular, normal, ordinary.

正常

Simplified
正常
Traditional
正常 (same form)
Pinyin
zhèng cháng

Stroke order of 正常

正

  • zhēng first month of the lunar year
  • zhèng straight; upright
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

常

  • Cháng surname Chang
  • cháng always; ever
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 正常

  1. zhèng cháng
    • regular
    • normal
    • ordinary

Radicals of the characters

正
Radical 止 (Kangxi radical 77) · 5 strokes · 一 on top, 止 below
常
Radical 巾 (Kangxi radical 50) · 11 strokes · 龸 on top, 吊 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.

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).