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哪 — how; which

Pinyin
nǎ · na · né · něi
Strokes
9
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

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

How to write 哪: 9 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.

哪 — 9 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 哪

Words with 哪 in the HSK syllabus: 6

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. 哪nǎhow; whichHSK 1
  2. 哪个nǎgewhich; whoHSK 1
  3. 哪里nǎlǐwhere?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhereHSK 1
  4. 哪儿nǎrwhere?; wherever; anywhere; somewhereHSK 1
  5. 哪些nǎxiēwhich ones?; who?; what?HSK 1
  6. 哪怕nǎpàeven; even if; even though; no matter howHSK 5

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.