Radical 乁

2 strokes

Why are there two teddies in this story? An explanation follows on the next page.

Compare this character with “power” (Character 14), and in particular compare the stroke orders. the character for “nine” will be represented in stories by a baseball.

[九十 (4) jiǔshí ninety]

[十九 (4) shíjiǔ nineteen]

[三十九 (3, 4) sānshíjiǔ thirty nine]

/ During throwing practice each of the nine members of the baseball team has to throw the baseball cleanly through the spokes of a wheel. Two teddies, who are holding the wheel, keep moving it for a joke.