【在】zài (radical 土) 🖌 Stroke Order of Frequently Used Traditional Chinese Characters
Channel: Vincent M. E. Verheyen
Date: 15/12/2016

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Pīnyīn and Zhùyīn spelling, meanings and usage of【在】
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zài ♦ ㄗㄞˋ ♦ (located) at / (to be) in / to exist / in the middle of doing sth / (indicating an action in progress) / an old variant is 扗 ❲zài❳

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Radical and stroke count of【在】
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土-3-6
tǔ ♦ ㄊㄨˇ ♦ earth
Kāngxī index: 32.3

Radical strokes: 3
Ideographic strokes: 3
Total strokes: 6

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Ideographic Description Sequence (IDS) of【在】
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⿸�土

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Note: "�" represents the glyph identified as CDP-88F1 in "GlyphWiki" (http://glyphwiki.org/wiki/cdp-88f1 @ 18 December 2016), unable to be represented here due to the seeming lack of a Unicode character of that glyph.

土
tǔ ♦ ㄊㄨˇ ♦ earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight ancient musical instruments 八音 ❰❲bā​yīn❳ music / (used in advertising instrumental tuition) / (archaic) musical instruments made of eight different materials (metal 金 ❲jīn❳, stone 石 ❲shí❳, clay 土 ❲tǔ❳, leather 革 ❲gé❳, silk 絲 ❲sī❳, wood 木 ❲mù❳, gourd 匏 ❲páo❳, bamboo 竹 ❲zhú❳)❱ / Tu (ethnic group)

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Sub-playlist of characters of radical【土】
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This video is part of the sub-playlist "Of radical【土】tǔ, ㄊㄨˇ) 🖌 Stroke Order of Frequently Used Traditional Chinese Characters" (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5vVsQPw0Ic474eWk4RomR31sGblhhun5).

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Main playlist
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This video is part of the playlist "Stroke Order of Frequently Used Traditional Chinese Characters" (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5vVsQPw0Ic5yW4zfMU4Hk3ibYe5q9c6f).

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Sources and licensing
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The meanings and usage of the featured character and the definition of its radical were based on "MDBG English to Chinese dictionary" (https://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddict&wdrst=1&wdqb=%E5%9C%A8 @ 15 December 2016), which is built upon "CC-CEDICT" and as such licensed under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.

The animation was taken from "常用國字標準字體筆順學習網"/"Learning Program for Stroke Order of Frequently Used Chinese Characters" (http://stroke-order.learningweb.moe.edu.tw/characterQueryResult.do?word=%E5%9C%A8 @ 15 December 2016), licensed under the "Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 TW" license by the "Ministry of Education, R.O.C. (Taiwan)".

The audio was compiled from "Concise Mandarin Chinese Dictionary" (http://stroke-order.learningweb.moe.edu.tw/advExplain1.do?big5=A662 @ 15 December 2016) by the "Ministry of Education, R.O.C. (Taiwan)". The radical and Zhùyīn spelling of the featured character were adopted from the same governmental website. I have asked for an explicit permission from that Ministry of Education to use the auditive excerpts in this video series (信件編號: 201612140002).

The Ideographic Description Sequence (IDS) was copied from "CHISE (CHaracter Information Service Environment)"/"漢字構造情報データベース" (http://www.chise.org/ids-find?components=%E5%9C%A8 @ 17 December 2016). The meanings and usage of the components of the IDS were copied from "MDBG English to Chinese dictionary" @ 19 December 2016.

The Kāngxī index was adopted from "Unihan Database" (http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=%E5%9C%A8 @ 17 December 2016).