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弟 — younger brother; junior male; I

Pinyin
dì · tì
Strokes
7
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

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

How to write 弟: 7 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.

弟 — 7 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 弟 in the HSK syllabus: 5

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. 弟弟dìdiyounger brotherHSK 1
  2. 兄弟xiōngdìbrothers; younger brother; I, me; brotherlyHSK 4
  3. 徒弟túdìapprentice; discipleHSK 6
  4. 弟子dìzǐdisciple; followerHSK 7–9
  5. 子弟zǐdìchild; the younger generationHSK 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.