砩 meaning and stroke order
To build a dam with rocks
How to write 砩, stroke by stroke
10 strokes in order. Each box adds the next stroke in red. Write top to bottom and left to right, and finish enclosing strokes last.
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Meaning of 砩
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, grouped by pronunciation.
- dam up water with rocks
- name of a stone
How 砩 is built
Phono-semantic (sound + meaning) character. Rock.
石 gives the meaning and 弗 hints at the sound.
Radical: 石 (stone), shared by 114 characters on this site.
How to remember 砩
The stone radical 石 (shí) on the left tells you this is about rocks, and 弗 (fú) on the right gives the sound. Picture piling stones 石 to say "no" (弗 is an old word for not) to the flowing water.
砩 is a rare character that you will mostly meet in dictionaries, classical texts, or place names, not in everyday speech. Read fèi, it means to dam up water with rocks. Read fú, it is the name of a kind of stone. Example: 砩水 (fèi shuǐ) to dam up water with stones.
Common mistake: Learners often read it only as fú and forget the fèi reading used for the damming sense. It is also easy to confuse it with 沸 (fèi, to boil), which shares the 弗 part but has the water radical 氵 instead of 石.
Questions about 砩
How many strokes are in 砩?
砩 is written with 10 strokes. The diagrams on this page number every stroke in the order it is written, with the new stroke shown in red.
What does 砩 mean?
砩 (fú) means to build a dam with rocks.
How do you pronounce 砩?
砩 is pronounced fú, in the second tone (rising).
What is the radical of 砩?
The radical of 砩 is 石, which carries the idea of "stone". Dictionaries list 砩 under this radical.
Which pronunciation of 砩 should I use?
Use fèi when it means damming water with rocks, and fú when it names a type of stone. The headword reading given here is fú.
Why do so many characters with 弗 sound like fu or fei?
弗 works as a sound component, so characters built on it, such as 佛 (fó), 拂 (fú), and 沸 (fèi), have similar sounds. The other part of each character, like 石 here, points to the meaning.