发起 — stroke order
Learn how to write 发起 (fāqǐ), which means “to originate”. It is written with 2 characters and 15 strokes in total. In traditional Chinese it is written 發起. Each character below is animated in the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap any character to replay it, or use “Play all strokes” to watch the whole word written in order.
Character by character
| Character | Pinyin | 注音 | Meaning | Strokes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 发 | fā | ㄈㄚ | to issue, to dispatch, to send out | 5 |
| 起 | qǐ | ㄑㄧˇ | to begin, to initiate | 10 |