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宜 — proper; should; suitable

proper; should; suitable; appropriate

Pinyin
yí · Yí
Strokes
8
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

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

How to write 宜: 8 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.

宜 — 8 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 宜

Words with 宜 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.

  1. 便宜piányicheap; inexpensive; a petty advantageHSK 1
  2. 不宜bùyínot suitable; inadvisable; inappropriateHSK 6
  3. 适宜shìyísuitable; appropriateHSK 6
  4. 事宜shìyímatters; arrangementsHSK 7–9
  5. 宜居yíjūlivableHSK 7–9
  6. 宜人yírénnice; pleasant; charming; hospitable to peopleHSK 7–9
  7. 因地制宜yīndì-zhìyíto use methods in line with local circumstancesHSK 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.