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孩 — child

Pinyin
hái
Strokes
9
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 孩: 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.

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

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Words with 孩 in the HSK syllabus: 4

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. 孩子háizichildHSK 1
  2. 男孩儿nánháirerhua form of 男孩[nan2 hai2]HSK 2
  3. 女孩儿nǚháirerhua form of 女孩[nu : 3 hai2]HSK 2
  4. 小孩儿xiǎoháir—HSK 2

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.