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名 — stroke order
Watch how to write 名 (míng) stroke by stroke. 名 has 6 strokes and means “name”. It appears in common words such as 排名 (ranking) and 名字 (name). 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 名
The most common words that use 名 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
排名páimíngranking名字míngziname成名chéngmíngto make one's name名單míngdānlist簽名qiānmíngto sign報名bàomíngto sign up
How 名 is written
- Radical
- 口
- Components
- 夕 ＋ 口
- Formation
- Ideographic — A name called out 口 to hail someone at night 夕.