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Mythic Mandarin

纵 (zòng): meaning and stroke order

纵 (zòng) means vertical; north-south (Taiwan pr.).

纵

Simplified
纵
Traditional
縱
Pinyin
zòng

Stroke order of 纵

纵

  • zòng vertical; north-south (Taiwan pr. [zong1]); from front to back; longitudinal; lengthwise (Taiwan pr. [zong1])
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 縱

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 纵

  1. zòng Traditional 縱
    • vertical; north-south (Taiwan pr. [zong1])
    • from front to back; longitudinal; lengthwise (Taiwan pr. [zong1])
    • military unit corresponding to an army corps (Taiwan pr. [zong1])
    • (bound form) to release (a captive)
    • to indulge
    • to leap up
    • (literary) even if

Radical and structure

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

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).