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然 — stroke order
Watch how to write 然 (rán) stroke by stroke. 然 has 12 strokes and means “certainly”. It appears in common words such as 居然 (unexpectedly) and 然後 (after). 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 然
The most common words that use 然 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
How 然 is written
- Radical
- 灬
- Components
- 肰 ＋ 灬
- Formation
- Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 灬 and a phonetic component 肰 (fire).