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Mythic Mandarin

纸 (zhǐ): meaning and stroke order

纸 (zhǐ) means paper (张,沓), classifier for documents, letters etc, variant of 纸.

纸

Simplified
纸
Traditional
紙, 帋
Pinyin
zhǐ

Stroke order of 纸

纸

  • zhǐ variant of 紙|纸[zhi3]
  • zhǐ paper (CL:張|张[zhang1],沓[da2]); classifier for documents, letters etc
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 帋

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 纸

  1. zhǐ Traditional 紙
    • paper (CL:張|张[zhang1],沓[da2])
    • classifier for documents, letters etc
  2. zhǐ Traditional 帋
    • variant of 紙|纸[zhi3]

Radical and structure

纸
Radical 纟 (Kangxi radical 120) in its simplified form · 7 strokes · 纟 on the left, 氏 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 纸

纸 in our stories

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  • 他们在自己的小区里贴了五十张纸,上面写着:“需要借什么,就在下面写上;愿意借出什么,也写上。”

    tāmen zài zìjǐ de xiǎoqū lǐ tiē le wǔshí zhāng zhǐ shàngmiàn xiě zhe xūyào jiè shénme jiù zài xiàmiàn xiě shàng yuànyì jièchū shénme yě xiě shàng

    They put up fifty sheets of paper around their housing estate: "Write below what you need to borrow, and what you're willing to lend."

    From the story Fifty sheets of paper HSK 5

  • 最后,他们向当地的划船俱乐部借了八条普通的船,自己在船头装上了纸做的龙头。

    zuìhòu tāmen xiàng dāngdì de huáchuán jùlèbù jiè le bā tiáo pǔtōng de chuán zìjǐ zài chuántóu zhuāng shàng le zhǐ zuò de lóngtóu

    In the end they borrowed eight ordinary boats from a local rowing club and fixed paper dragon heads to the bows themselves.

    From the story Dragon boats in Hamburg HSK 5

  • 箱子里没有金子,只有一块用纸包着的普洱茶饼,纸上写着:“一九九二年,川川出生那天买的。等他长大,一起喝。”

    xiāngzi lǐ méiyǒu jīnzi zhǐ yǒu yí kuài yòng zhǐ bāo zhe de pǔ'ěr chábǐng zhǐ shàng xiě zhe yī jiǔ jiǔ èr nián Chuānchuan chūshēng nà tiān mǎi de děng tā zhǎngdà yìqǐ hē

    There was no gold in the box, only a pu'er tea cake wrapped in paper. On the paper was written: "1992, bought the day Chuanchuan was born. When he grows up, we'll drink it together."

    From the story Great-uncle's wooden box HSK 6

Stories using 纸

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).