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哭 — to cry; to weep

Pinyin
kū
Strokes
10
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
required

How to write 哭: 10 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.

哭 — 10 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 哭 in the HSK syllabus: 3

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. 哭kūto cry; to weepHSK 3
  2. 哭泣kūqìto weepHSK 7–9
  3. 哭笑不得kūxiào-bùdélit. not to know whether to laugh or cryHSK 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.