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租 — to hire; to rent; to charter

to hire; to rent; to charter; to rent out; to lease out; rent

Pinyin
zū
Strokes
10
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 租: 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.

租 — 10 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 租 in the HSK syllabus: 6

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. 出租车chūzūchētaxi; rental carHSK 1
  2. 出租chūzūto rentHSK 4
  3. 房租fángzūrent for a room or houseHSK 4
  4. 租zūto hire; to rent; to charter; to rent outHSK 4
  5. 租金zūjīnrentHSK 5
  6. 租赁zūlìnto rent; to lease; to hireHSK 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.