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游 — to swim

Pinyin
yóu · Yóu
Strokes
12
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

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

How to write 游: 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. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

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

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Words with 游 in the HSK syllabus: 16

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. 旅游lǚyóutrip; journey; tourism; travel; tour; to travelHSK 2
  2. 游yóuto swimHSK 2
  3. 游泳yóuyǒngswimming; to swimHSK 2
  4. 游客yóukètraveler; tourist; guest playerHSK 3
  5. 游戏yóuxìgame; to playHSK 3
  6. 导游dǎoyóutour guide; guidebook; to conduct a tourHSK 4
  7. 游玩yóuwánto amuse oneself; to have fun; to go sightseeingHSK 4
  8. 游览yóulǎnto go sightseeing; to tour; to visitHSK 5
  9. 出游chūyóuto go on a tour; to have an outingHSK 6
  10. 游人yóuréna touristHSK 6
  11. 郊游jiāoyóuto go for an outing; to go on an excursionHSK 7–9
  12. 漫游mànyóuto travel around; to roam; roamingHSK 7–9
  13. 上游shàngyóuupper reaches; upper level; upper echelon; upstreamHSK 7–9
  14. 下游xiàyóulower reaches; lower level; lower echelonHSK 7–9
  15. 游船yóuchuánpleasure boat; cruise shipHSK 7–9
  16. 游行yóuxíngto march; to parade; to demonstrateHSK 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.