走绳

走繩
zǒushéng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 tightrope walking
  2. 2 rope walking (acrobatic act)

Examples

Zǒushéng shì Zhōngguó chuántǒng zájì zhī yī.
Tightrope walking is one of China's traditional acrobatic arts.
Tā cóngxiǎo jiù kāishǐ liànxí zǒushéng.
She has been practicing tightrope walking since childhood.

Tips

culture
走绳 has been part of Chinese 杂技 (zájì, acrobatics) for over two thousand years — references appear as early as the Han dynasty in 《西》. Modern term 走钢丝 (zǒu gāngsī, walking the steel wire) is the circus equivalent.

Stroke Order

zǒu
shéng