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要 — stroke order
Watch how to write 要 (yào) stroke by stroke. 要 has 9 strokes and means “essential”. It appears in common words such as 需要 (to need) and 重要 (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 要
The most common words that use 要 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
How 要 is written
- Radical
- 覀
- Components
- 覀 ＋ 女
- Formation
- Ideographic — A woman 女 with hands on her waist 覀.