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水 — stroke order
Watch how to write 水 (shuǐ) stroke by stroke. 水 has 4 strokes and means “water”. It appears in common words such as 水果 (fruit) and 水瓶座 (Aquarius). 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 水
The most common words that use 水 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
水果shuǐguǒfruit水瓶座shuǐpíngzuòAquarius水平shuǐpínglevel淚水lèishuǐteardrop香水xiāngshuǐperfume熱水rèshuǐhot water
How 水 is written
- Radical
- 水
- Formation
- Pictographic — A river running between two banks; compare 川.