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楚 — distinct; clear; orderly

distinct; clear; orderly; pain; suffering

Pinyin
chǔ · Chǔ
Strokes
13
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

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

How to write 楚: 13 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.

楚 — 13 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 楚

Words with 楚 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.

  1. 清楚qīngchuclear; distinct; to understand thoroughlyHSK 3

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.