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狗 — stroke order

gǒu
ㄍㄡˇ
Meaning
dog
Strokes
8
Radical
Practise 狗 in the full tool →

Watch how to write (gǒu) stroke by stroke. 狗 has 8 strokes and means “dog”. It appears in common words such as 小狗 (pup) and 狗屎 (canine excrement). 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 狗

The most common words that use 狗 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.

小狗xiǎogǒupup狗屎gǒushǐcanine excrement狗屁gǒupìbullshit狗血gǒuxiěmelodramatic搜狗sōugǒuSougou search engine, www.sogou.com遛狗liùgǒuto walk a dog

How 狗 is written

Radical
Components
Formation
Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 犭 and a phonetic component 句 (dog).

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