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糕 — cake

Pinyin
gāo
Strokes
16
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 糕: 16 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.

糕 — 16 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 糕 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. 蛋糕dàngāocakeHSK 3
  2. 雪糕xuěgāoice cream bar; ice cream popsicleHSK 5
  3. 糟糕zāogāotoo bad; how terrible; what bad luck; terrible; badHSK 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.