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检 — to check; to examine; to inspect

to check; to examine; to inspect; to exercise restraint

Pinyin
jiǎn
Strokes
11
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 检: 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.

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

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Words with 检 in the HSK syllabus: 8

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. 检查jiǎncháinspection; to examine; to inspectHSK 3
  2. 检票jiǎnpiàoto inspect a ticket; to examine a ballotHSK 3
  3. 安检ānjiǎnsecurity check; to do a security checkHSK 4
  4. 体检tǐjiǎn—HSK 4
  5. 检测jiǎncèto test; to detectHSK 6
  6. 检验jiǎnyànto inspect; to examine; to testHSK 6
  7. 检察jiǎncháto inspect; to prosecute; to investigateHSK 7–9
  8. 检讨jiǎntǎoto examine or inspect; self-criticism; reviewHSK 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.