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男 — male

Pinyin
nán
Strokes
7
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
required

How to write 男: 7 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.

男 — 7 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 男 in the HSK syllabus: 9

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. 男nánmaleHSK 1
  2. 男朋友nánpéngyouboyfriendHSK 1
  3. 男孩儿nánháirerhua form of 男孩[nan2 hai2]HSK 2
  4. 男人nánréna man; a male; menHSK 3
  5. 男生nánshēngschoolboy; male student; boy; guyHSK 3
  6. 男士nánshìman; gentlemanHSK 4
  7. 男性nánxìngthe male sex; a maleHSK 4
  8. 男子nánzǐa man; a maleHSK 5
  9. 男方nánfāngthe bridegroom's side; the husband's sideHSK 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.