戏 — trick; drama; play
trick; drama; play; show
- Pinyin
- xì
- Strokes
- 6
- HSK level
- HSK 3
- Handwriting
- recognition only
How to write 戏: 6 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.
Words with 戏 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.
- 游戏yóuxìgame; to playHSK 3
- 戏xìtrick; drama; play; showHSK 5
- 戏剧xìjùa drama; a play; theater; script of a playHSK 5
- 戏曲xìqǔChinese operaHSK 6
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.