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意 — stroke order
Watch how to write 意 (yì) 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
- 心
- Components
- 音 + 心
- Formation
- Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 心 and a phonetic component 音 (heart).