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区 — area; region; district

area; region; district; small; distinguish

Pinyin
qū · Ōu
Strokes
4
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
required

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

How to write 区: 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.

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

Build a printable practice sheet with 区

Words with 区 in the HSK syllabus: 21

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. 小区xiǎoqūhousing estate; community; neighborhood; cellHSK 3
  2. 郊区jiāoqūJiao District or Jiaoqu, a district of Tongling City 銅陵市|铜陵市[Tong2 ling2 Shi4], AnhuiHSK 4
  3. 景区jǐngqūscenic areaHSK 4
  4. 区qūarea; region; district; small; distinguishHSK 4
  5. 区别qūbiédifference; to distinguish; to discriminateHSK 4
  6. 市区shìqūurban district; downtown; city centerHSK 4
  7. 城区chéngqūCheng District or Chengqu, a district of Shanwei City 汕尾市[Shan4 wei3 Shi4], GuangdongHSK 5
  8. 地区dìqūregion; area; prefectureHSK 5
  9. 区域qūyùarea; region; districtHSK 5
  10. 山区shānqūmountain areaHSK 5
  11. 社区shèqūcommunity; neighborhoodHSK 5
  12. 区分qūfēnto differentiate; to draw a distinctionHSK 6
  13. 灾区zāiqūdisaster area; stricken regionHSK 6
  14. 禁区jìnqūrestricted area; forbidden zone; off-limits areaHSK 7–9
  15. 开发区kāifāqūdevelopment zoneHSK 7–9
  16. 区间qūjiāndelimited areaHSK 7–9
  17. 区区qūqūinsignificant; trifling; merelyHSK 7–9
  18. 误区wùqūmistaken ideas; misconceptions; the error of one's waysHSK 7–9
  19. 辖区xiáqūadministrative regionHSK 7–9
  20. 园区yuánqūsite developed for a group of related enterprises; parkHSK 7–9
  21. 自治区zìzhìqūautonomous region – a provincial-level administrative division of China with self-governance for ethnic minoritiesHSK 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.