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转身 (zhuǎn shēn): meaning and stroke order

转身 (zhuǎn shēn) means (of a person) to turn round, to face about, (of a widow) to remarry (archaic).

转身

Simplified
转身
Traditional
轉身
Pinyin
zhuǎn shēn

Stroke order of 转身

转

  • zhuǎi see 轉文|转文[zhuai3 wen2]
  • zhuǎn to turn; to change direction
  • zhuàn to revolve; to turn
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 轉

Stroke by stroke

身

  • shēn body; life
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 转身

  1. zhuǎn shēn Traditional 轉身
    • (of a person) to turn round
    • to face about
    • (of a widow) to remarry (archaic)

Radicals of the characters

转
Radical 车 (Kangxi radical 159) in its simplified form · 8 strokes · 车 on the left, 专 on the right
身
Radical 身 (Kangxi radical 158) · 7 strokes · built from 𨈐 and 𠄠

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.

转身 in our stories

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  • 他只是远远地挥了挥手，又转身走向了河边。

    tā zhǐshì yuǎnyuǎn de huī le huī shǒu yòu zhuǎnshēn zǒu xiàng le hé biān

    He only waved from a distance, then turned back towards the river.

    From the story Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6

  • 他转身跑到黄河边，趴下来大口大口地喝水，一口气把黄河喝干了；又跑到渭水，把渭水也喝干了。

    tā zhuǎnshēn pǎo dào Huáng Hé biān pā xiàlai dàkǒu dàkǒu de hēshuǐ yìkǒuqì bǎ Huáng Hé hē gān le yòu pǎo dào Wèishuǐ bǎ Wèishuǐ yě hē gān le

    He turned and ran to the Yellow River, lay down and gulped the water, drinking the Yellow River dry in one go; then he ran to the Wei River and drank that dry too.

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 转身

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).