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城 — city walls; city; town

Pinyin
chéng
Strokes
9
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
required

How to write 城: 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. This character is on the HSK handwriting list, so the exam expects you to write it, not only recognise it.

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

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Words with 城 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. 城市chéngshìcity; townHSK 3
  2. 城chéngcity walls; city; townHSK 4
  3. 城区chéngqūCheng District or Chengqu, a district of Shanwei City 汕尾市[Shan4 wei3 Shi4], GuangdongHSK 5
  4. 城镇chéngzhèntown; cities and townsHSK 6
  5. 城墙chéngqiángcity wallHSK 7–9
  6. 众志成城zhòngzhì-chéngchéngunity of will is an impregnable strongholdHSK 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.