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康 — healthy; peaceful; abundant

Pinyin
kāng · Kāng
Strokes
11
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

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

How to write 康: 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.

康 — 11 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 康

Words with 康 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. 健康jiànkānghealth; healthyHSK 3
  2. 康复kāngfùto recuperate; to recover; to convalesceHSK 6
  3. 小康xiǎokāngXiaokang, a Confucian near-ideal state of society, second only to Datong 大同[Da4 tong2]HSK 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.