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是 — stroke order
Watch how to write 是 (shì) stroke by stroke. 是 has 9 strokes and means “to be”. It appears in common words such as 還是 (or) and 但是 (but). 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 是
The most common words that use 是 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
How 是 is written
- Radical
- 日
- Components
- 日 ＋ 疋
- Formation
- Ideographic — To speak 日 directly 疋.