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读 — stroke order
Watch how to write 读 (dú) stroke by stroke. 读 has 10 strokes and means “to study”. It appears in common words such as 读书 (to read a book) and 阅读 (to read). 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 读
The most common words that use 读 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
读书dúshūto read a book阅读yuèdúto read读懂dúdǒngto read and understand解读jiědúto decipher读者dúzhěreader导读dǎodúguide
How 读 is written
- Radical
- 讠
- Components
- 讠 ＋ 卖
- Formation
- Ideographic — To show off 卖 one's literacy 讠.