粧 Stroke Order

粧 (zhuāng) 1. Same as "妝" (makeup, adornment). - "妝," according to "Shuowen Jiezi": "to adorn." Xu notes: "Now commonly written as 粧." 2. Used the same way as "裝" (to load, to adorn). ① To dress up; to pretend. Example from Yuan drama by Ma Zhiyuan: "Recognizing from the beginning, it is all accurate. How can one feign deafness with silence?" ② To load. Example from "Jing Shi Tong Yan": "The elder carried his own shrine, adorned it for Kechang, and lifted it from the mountain top." 动 (verb): (phono-semantic compound. The left component is 女 (woman), the right component is 爿 (pán); denotes the action of dressing and adorning). - Same as the primary meaning of 妝, which is also to adorn. -- "Shuowen Jiezi." - The character can also be written as 娤. Additional examples include: - 妆束 (the style of dressing up); - 妆台 (the mirror table used by women for makeup, also refers to a boudoir); - 妆严 (the style of dressing up). 动 (verb): (phono-semantic compound. The left component is 女 (woman), the right component is 爿 (pán); denotes the action of dressing and adorning). - Same as the primary meaning of 妝, which is also to adorn. -- "Shuowen Jiezi." - The character can also be written as 娤. Additional examples include: - 妆束 (the style of dressing up); - 妆台 (the mirror table used by women for makeup, also refers to a boudoir); - 妆严 (the style of dressing up).