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午 — 7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month, year of the Horse

Pinyin
wǔ
Strokes
4
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
required

How to write 午: 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.

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

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Words with 午 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. 上午shàngwǔmorningHSK 1
  2. 午饭wǔfànlunchHSK 1
  3. 下午xiàwǔafternoon; p.m.HSK 1
  4. 中午zhōngwǔnoon; middayHSK 1
  5. 午餐wǔcānlunch; luncheonHSK 4

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.