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意 — stroke order

ㄧˋ
Meaning
thought
Strokes
13
Radical
Practise 意 in the full tool →

Watch how to write () stroke by stroke. 意 has 13 strokes and means “thought”. It appears in common words such as 意思 (idea) and 注意 (to take note of). 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 意

The most common words that use 意 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.

意思yìsiidea注意zhùyìto take note of願意yuànyìto wish意義yìyìsense意見yìjiànidea萬事如意wànshìrúyìto have all one's wishes

How 意 is written

Radical
Components
Formation
Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 心 and a phonetic component 音 (heart).

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