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但 — but; yet; however

but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just

Pinyin
dàn
Strokes
7
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 但: 7 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. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

但 — 7 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 但 in the HSK syllabus: 5

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. 但dànbut; yet; however; still; merely; only; justHSK 2
  2. 但是dànshìbut; howeverHSK 2
  3. 不但búdànnot onlyHSK 3
  4. 但愿dànyuànif only; I wishHSK 7–9
  5. 非但fēidànnot onlyHSK 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.