状
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(bound form) form; appearance; shape; (bound form) state; condition; (bound form) to describe; (bound form) written complaint; lawsuit; (bound form) certificate
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 犬 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 狀
- Common rank
- #595
- Unicode
- U+72B6
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
state of affairs · Heisig RSH #242
turtle + chihuahua
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 状
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不可名状 | indescribable; beyond description | |
| 行行出状元 | lit. in every trade, a master appears (idiom); fig. You can produce outstanding achievemen… | |
| 球状物 | globe | |
| 无状 | insolence; insolent; ill-mannered | |
| 性状 | nature (i.e. properties of sth); character | |
| 行状 | (literary) brief obituary; one's past experience; one's past record; Taiwan pr. [xing4 zhu… | |
| 球状蛋白质 | globular protein | |
| 无症状 | asymptomatic | |
| 症状性 | symptomatic | |
| 状物 | ...-shaped thing; to portray sth | |
| 状语 | adverbial adjunct (adverb or adverbial clause) | |
| 波状热 | undulant fever; brucellosis | |
| 石状 | stony | |
| 状声词 | onomatopoeia | |
| 病状 | symptom (of a disease) | |
| 线状 | linear | |
| 名状 | to express; to describe | |
| 状态动词 | (linguistics) stative verb | |
| 轮状病毒 | rotavirus | |
| 情状 | situation; circumstances |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 丬 — compare how they read.