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典 — canon; law

canon; law; standard work of scholarship

Pinyin
diǎn
Strokes
8
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
required

How to write 典: 8 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.

典 — 8 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 典 in the HSK syllabus: 10

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. 词典cídiǎndictionaryHSK 3
  2. 字典zìdiǎnChinese character dictionary; dictionaryHSK 3
  3. 经典jīngdiǎnthe classics; scriptures; classical; classicHSK 5
  4. 典礼diǎnlǐceremony; celebrationHSK 6
  5. 典型diǎnxíngmodel; typical case; archetype; typicalHSK 6
  6. 古典gǔdiǎnclassicalHSK 6
  7. 辞典cídiǎn—HSK 7–9
  8. 典范diǎnfànmodel; example; paragonHSK 7–9
  9. 庆典qìngdiǎncelebrationHSK 7–9
  10. 引经据典yǐnjīng-jùdiǎnlit. to quote the classicsHSK 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.