疼 — hurts; sore; to love dearly
- Pinyin
- téng
- Strokes
- 10
- HSK level
- HSK 2
- Handwriting
- recognition only
How to write 疼: 10 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.
Words with 疼 in the HSK syllabus: 4
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.
- 疼ténghurts; sore; to love dearlyHSK 2
- 疼痛téngtòngpain; to be painful; to be sore; to hurtHSK 5
- 心疼xīnténgto love dearly; to feel sorry for sb; to regretHSK 6
- 疼爱téngàito love dearly; to dote onHSK 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.