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渴 — thirsty

Pinyin
kě
Strokes
12
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
required

How to write 渴: 12 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. This character is on the HSK handwriting list, so the exam expects you to write it, not only recognise it.

渴 — 12 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 渴 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. 渴kěthirstyHSK 3
  2. 渴望kěwàngto thirst for; to long forHSK 6
  3. 解渴jiěkěto quenchHSK 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.