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字 — stroke order
Watch how to write 字 (zì) stroke by stroke. 字 has 6 strokes and means “character”. It appears in common words such as 名字 (name) and 數字 (numeral). 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 字
The most common words that use 字 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
How 字 is written
- Radical
- 子
- Components
- 宀 ＋ 子
- Formation
- Ideographic — A child 子 in a house 宀; 子 also provides the pronunciation.