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五 — five; 5

Pinyin
wǔ
Strokes
4
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
required

How to write 五: 4 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. This character is on the HSK handwriting list, so the exam expects you to write it, not only recognise it.

五 — 4 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 五 in the HSK syllabus: 6

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 五wǔfive; 5HSK 1
  2. 五颜六色wǔyán-liùsèmulticolored; every color under the sunHSK 5
  3. 三番五次sānfān-wǔcìover and over againHSK 7–9
  4. 五官wǔguānfive sense organs of TCM; facial featuresHSK 7–9
  5. 五花八门wǔhuā-bāménmyriad; all kinds of; all sorts ofHSK 7–9
  6. 五湖四海wǔhú-sìhǎiall parts of the countryHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.