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五 — stroke order
Watch how to write 五 (wǔ) stroke by stroke. 五 has 4 strokes and means “five”. It appears in common words such as 第五 (fifth) and 五彩 (five colors). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 五
The most common words that use 五 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
How 五 is written
- Radical
- 二
- Formation
- Ideographic — Five elements (the cross with the extra stroke) between heaven 一 and earth 一 .