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爷 — grandpa; old gentleman

Pinyin
yé
Strokes
6
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

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

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

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Words with 爷 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. 爷爷yéyepaternal grandfather; grandpaHSK 2
  2. 大爷dàyefather's older brother; uncleHSK 5
  3. 姥爷lǎoyemother's father; maternal grandfatherHSK 5

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.