对不起 — stroke order
Learn how to write 对不起 (duìbuqǐ), which means “unworthy”. It is written with 3 characters and 19 strokes in total. In traditional Chinese it is written 對不起. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 对 | duì | ㄉㄨㄟˋ | correct, right | 5 |
| 不 | bu | ㄅㄨ˙ | no, not, un- | 4 |
| 起 | qǐ | ㄑㄧˇ | to begin, to initiate | 10 |