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理 — stroke order
Watch how to write 理 (lǐ) stroke by stroke. 理 has 11 strokes and means “science”. It appears in common words such as 心理 (mental) and 理解 (to comprehend). 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 理
The most common words that use 理 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
How 理 is written
- Radical
- 王
- Components
- 王 ＋ 里
- Formation
- Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 王 and a phonetic component 里 (king).