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刷 — a brush; to paint; to daub

a brush; to paint; to daub; to brush; to scrub

Pinyin
shuā · shuà
Strokes
8
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — shuā, shuà — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

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

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

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Words with 刷 in the HSK syllabus: 4

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. 刷shuāa brush; to paint; to daub; to brush; to scrubHSK 3
  2. 牙刷yáshuātoothbrushHSK 3
  3. 印刷yìnshuāto print; printingHSK 5
  4. 刷新shuāxīnto renovate; to refurbish; to refreshHSK 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.