(sūn)

12 strokes

(literary) supper

Stroke order animation

Character information

Pinyin
sūn
Meaning
(literary) supper
Strokes
12
HSK level
Traditional
Same

Origin & structure

Where comes from and how its parts fit together.

Ideograph⿰夕食

An evening 夕 meal 食

A combination of parts whose meanings add up to the whole.

Made of

Parts are arranged left to right.

How to write step by step

12 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.

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Words with

Common words using — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.

pánsūn

dishes; the food in a dish

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yōngsūn

(literary) lit. breakfast and supper; fig. cooked food

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(lit.) breakfast in the morning and supper in the evening (idiom)

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