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Mythic Mandarin

自由 (zì yóu): meaning and stroke order

自由 (zì yóu) means freedom; liberty, free; unrestricted.

自由

Simplified
自由
Traditional
自由 (same form)
Pinyin
zì yóu

Stroke order of 自由

自

  • zì (bound form) self; oneself; from; since
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

由

  • yóu to follow; from
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 自由

  1. zì yóu
    • freedom; liberty
    • free; unrestricted

Radicals of the characters

自
Radical 自 (Kangxi radical 132) · 6 strokes
由
Radical 田 (Kangxi radical 102) · 5 strokes · built from 日 and 丨

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.

自由 in our stories

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  • 惠子做过魏国的宰相，喜欢讲逻辑，什么事都要问个为什么；庄子却宁可当一只在泥里自由爬的乌龟，也不愿意做官。

    Huìzǐ zuò guò Wèiguó de zǎixiàng xǐhuan jiǎng luójí shénme shì dōu yào wèn gè wèishénme Zhuāngzǐ què nìngkě dāng yì zhī zài ní lǐ zìyóu pá de wūguī yě bú yuànyì zuòguān

    Huizi had been chancellor of Wei and loved logic; he had to ask why about everything. Zhuangzi, by contrast, would rather be a tortoise crawling freely in the mud than become an official.

    From the story The happiness of fish HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 自由

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).