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浑húnmuddy; turbid
氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
军army · jūnSound part
氵 hints at the meaning (water); 军 (jūn) hints at the sound. Compare it with hún.
身shēnbody
身 is a single shape of 7 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.
Memory aidDrawn from a person with a large belly: the body.
How to write 浑身
浑 9 strokes · 身 7 strokes
Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.
Stroke order chart for 浑身 (húnshēn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
浑身 (húnshēn) means “all over (the body)” or “from head to toe”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it húnshēn: hún with a 2nd tone, then shēn with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 浑身 is written 渾身. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hunshen with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 浑身 from the suggestions. Typing hunshen into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
浑身 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.
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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
浑hún2nd tone, rising
身shēn1st tone, high and level
