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双 — two; double; pair

two; double; pair; both; even

Pinyin
shuāng · Shuāng
Strokes
4
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

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

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

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

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Words with 双 in the HSK syllabus: 7

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. 双shuāngtwo; double; pair; both; evenHSK 3
  2. 双方shuāngfāngbilateral; both sides; both parties involvedHSK 5
  3. 双胞胎shuāngbāotāitwinHSK 7–9
  4. 双边shuāngbiānbilateralHSK 7–9
  5. 双重shuāngchóngdoubleHSK 7–9
  6. 双向shuāngxiàngbidirectional; two-way; interactiveHSK 7–9
  7. 双赢shuāngyíngprofitable to both sides; a win-win situationHSK 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.