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粽子 (zòng zi): meaning and stroke order

粽子 (zòng zi) means glutinous rice and choice of filling wrapped in leaves and steamed or boiled.

粽子

Simplified
粽子
Traditional
粽子 (same form)
Pinyin
zòng zi

Stroke order of 粽子

粽

  • zòng rice dumplings wrapped in leaves
  • zòng variant of 粽[zong4]
  • 14 strokes
  • Traditional form: 糉

Stroke by stroke

子

  • zǐ son; child
  • zi noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 粽子

  1. zòng zi
    • glutinous rice and choice of filling wrapped in leaves and steamed or boiled

Radicals of the characters

粽
Radical 米 (Kangxi radical 119) · 14 strokes · 米 on the left, 宗 on the right
子
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 3 strokes · built from 了 and 一

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.

粽子 in our stories

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  • 晚上，大家坐在湖边一起吃粽子，厨师说：“明年我还来，不过你们得教我包粽子。”

    wǎnshang dàjiā zuò zài hú biān yìqǐ chī zòngzi chúshī shuō míngnián wǒ hái lái búguò nǐmen děi jiāo wǒ bāo zòngzi

    In the evening everyone sat by the lake eating zongzi, and the chef said, "I'll be back next year, but you have to teach me to make zongzi."

    From the story Dragon boats in Hamburg HSK 5

Stories using 粽子

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).