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没 — stroke order
Watch how to write 没 (méi) stroke by stroke. 没 has 7 strokes and means “not”. It appears in common words such as 没有 (haven't) and 没事 (it's not important). 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 没
The most common words that use 没 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
没有méiyǒuhaven't没事méishìit's not important没法méifǎat a loss没用méiyònguseless没错méicuòthat's right没什么méishénmeit doesn't matter
How 没 is written
- Radical
- 氵
- Components
- 氵 + 殳
- Formation
- Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 氵 and a phonetic component 殳 (water).