本来 — stroke order
Learn how to write 本来 (běnlái), which means “original”. It is written with 2 characters and 12 strokes in total. In traditional Chinese it is written 本來. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 本 | běn | ㄅㄣˇ | root, origin, source | 5 |
| 来 | lái | ㄌㄞˊ | to arrive, to come, to return | 7 |