桌 — table; desk

table; desk; classifier for tables of guests at a banquet etc

Pinyin: zhuō
Strokes: 10
HSK level: HSK 1
Handwriting: recognition only

How to write 桌: 10 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.

桌 — 10 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 桌 in the HSK syllabus: 1

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.

桌子zhuōzitable; deskHSK 1

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.