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懂 — to understand; to comprehend

Pinyin
dǒng
Strokes
15
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 懂: 15 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.

懂 — 15 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 懂 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. 懂dǒngto understand; to comprehendHSK 2
  2. 懂得dǒngdeto understand; to know; to comprehendHSK 3
  3. 懂事dǒngshìto grow beyond the naivete of childhood; to be aware of what is going on in the worldHSK 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.