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在 — stroke order
Watch how to write 在 (zài) stroke by stroke. 在 has 6 strokes and means “at”. It appears in common words such as 現在 (now) and 在一起 (together). 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 在
The most common words that use 在 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
現在xiànzàinow在一起zàiyīqǐtogether正在zhèngzàiin the process of實在shízàireally在乎zàihudetermined by存在cúnzàito exist
How 在 is written
- Radical
- 土
- Components
- 才 ＋ 土
- Formation
- Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 土 and a phonetic component 才 (earth).