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司 — to take charge of; to manage

to take charge of; to manage; department

Pinyin
sī · Sī
Strokes
5
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

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

How to write 司: 5 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.

司 — 5 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 司 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. 公司gōngsīcompany; firm; corporationHSK 1
  2. 司机sījīchauffeur; driverHSK 3
  3. 官司guānsilawsuitHSK 7–9
  4. 上司shàngsiboss; superiorHSK 7–9
  5. 司法sīfǎjudicial; justiceHSK 7–9
  6. 司空见惯sīkōng-jiànguàna common occurrenceHSK 7–9
  7. 司令sīlìngcommanding officerHSK 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.