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界 — boundary; border; realm

Pinyin
jiè
Strokes
9
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 界: 9 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.

界 — 9 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 界 in the HSK syllabus: 11

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. 世界shìjièworldHSK 3
  2. 外界wàijièthe outside world; externalHSK 6
  3. 边界biānjièboundary; borderHSK 7–9
  4. 交界jiāojiècommon boundary; common borderHSK 7–9
  5. 界jièboundary; border; realmHSK 7–9
  6. 界定jièdìngdefinition; to delimitHSK 7–9
  7. 界限jièxiànboundaryHSK 7–9
  8. 界线jièxiànlimits; bounds; dividing lineHSK 7–9
  9. 境界jìngjièboundary; state; realmHSK 7–9
  10. 眼界yǎnjièfield of vision; scope; horizonHSK 7–9
  11. 自然界zìránjiènature; the natural worldHSK 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.