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生 — stroke order
Watch how to write 生 (shēng) stroke by stroke. 生 has 5 strokes and means “life”. It appears in common words such as 生活 (life) and 人生 (life). 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 生
The most common words that use 生 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
How 生 is written
- Radical
- 生
- Components
- 一 ＋ 土
- Formation
- Ideographic — A shoot 屮 growing in the soil 土.