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灯 — lamp; light; lantern

Pinyin
dēng
Strokes
6
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
required

How to write 灯: 6 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.

灯 — 6 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 灯 in the HSK syllabus: 7

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. 灯dēnglamp; light; lanternHSK 3
  2. 红绿灯hóng-lǜdēngtraffic light; traffic signalHSK 3
  3. 灯光dēngguānglighting; lightHSK 5
  4. 台灯táidēngdesk lamp; table lampHSK 5
  5. 灯笼dēnglonglanternHSK 6
  6. 灯泡dēngpàolight bulbHSK 7–9
  7. 张灯结彩zhāngdēng-jiécǎito be decorated with lanterns and colored bannersHSK 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.