stone

Origin & mnemonic

A pictograph from oracle-bone script depicting a rock or stone with diagonal strokes representing its rough, textured surface. This form was preserved through seal script and developed into the modern character.

Mnemonic: The shape of the stone radical resembles a rocky mass with rough, textured streaks across its surface.

• 碏què🔊

  (gems)

  13 strokes

• 碑bēi🔊

  a monument

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 碓duì🔊

  pestle

  13 strokes

• 碘diǎn🔊

  iodine (chemistry)

  13 strokes

• 碚bèi🔊

  (used in place names)

  13 strokes

• 碛qì🔊

  (bound form) moraine; rocks in shallow water

  13 strokes

• 碜chěn🔊

  gritty (of food)

  13 strokes

• 碞yán🔊

  cliff

  14 strokes

• 碧bì🔊

  green jade

  14 strokes

• 碟dié🔊

  dish

  14 strokes

• 碳tàn🔊

  carbon (chemistry)

  HSK 7

  14 strokes

• 碱jiǎn🔊

  (chemistry) base; alkali; soda

  14 strokes

• 碝ruǎn🔊

  jade-like stone

  14 strokes

• 磁cí🔊

  magnetic

  14 strokes

• 碲dì🔊

  tellurium (chemistry)

  14 strokes

• 䃉mín🔊

  old variant of 珉[min2]

  14 strokes

• 䃎zhà🔊

  (used in place names)

  14 strokes

• 碡zhóu🔊

  stone roller (for threshing grain, leveling ground etc)

  14 strokes

• 碣jié🔊

  stone tablet

  14 strokes

• 碥biǎn🔊

  dangerous rocks jutting out over rapids

  14 strokes

• 碫duàn🔊

  coarse stone (used for whetstone)

  14 strokes

• 碬xiá🔊

  whetstone

  14 strokes

• 碯nǎo🔊

  variant of 瑙[nao3]

  14 strokes

• 碴chá🔊

  fault

  14 strokes

• 磈wěi🔊

  rocky

  14 strokes

• 磋cuō🔊

  (old) to polish bones, horns, ivory etc into tools

  14 strokes

• 磅bàng🔊

  scale (instrument for weighing)

  HSK 7

  15 strokes

• 磕kē🔊

  to tap; to knock (against sth hard); (esp.) to knock (mud from boots, ash from a pipe etc)

  HSK 7

  15 strokes

• 碾niǎn🔊

  stone roller

  15 strokes

• 磉sǎng🔊

  stone plinth

  15 strokes

• 碻què🔊

  solid

  15 strokes

• 磊lěi🔊

  lumpy

  15 strokes

• 磎xī🔊

  mountain stream

  15 strokes

• 磐pán🔊

  firm

  15 strokes

• 磔zhé🔊

  old term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese characters (e.g. the last stroke of 大[da4]), now called 捺[na4]

  15 strokes

• 磙gǔn🔊

  roller

  15 strokes

• 磤yǐn🔊

  (onom.) sound of thunder

  15 strokes

• 磨mó🔊

  to rub

  HSK 6

  16 strokes

• 磖lá🔊

  old variant of 砬[la2]

  16 strokes

• 磛chán🔊

  cliff

  16 strokes

• 磜qì🔊

  (used in place names)

  16 strokes

• 磡kàn🔊

  dangerous sea-cliff

  16 strokes

• 磥lěi🔊

  a heap of stones

  16 strokes

• 磪cuī🔊

  a high mountain

  16 strokes

• 磬qìng🔊

  chime stones, ancient percussion instrument made of stone or jade pieces hung in a row and struck as a xylophone

  16 strokes

• 磭chuò🔊

  big lip

  16 strokes

• 磲qú🔊

  used in 硨磲|砗磲[che1 qu2]

  16 strokes

• 磺huáng🔊

  sulfur

  16 strokes