婚 — marriage; wedding; to marry
- Pinyin
- hūn
- Strokes
- 11
- HSK level
- HSK 3
- Handwriting
- recognition only
How to write 婚: 11 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.
Words with 婚 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.
- 结婚jiéhūnto marry; to get marriedHSK 3
- 婚礼hūnlǐwedding ceremony; weddingHSK 5
- 离婚líhūnto divorceHSK 5
- 订婚dìnghūnto get engagedHSK 6
- 婚姻hūnyīnmarriage; matrimonyHSK 6
- 求婚qiúhūnto propose marriageHSK 6
- 婚纱hūnshāwedding dressHSK 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.