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给 — to; for; for the benefit of

to; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allow; to do sth

Pinyin
gěi · jǐ
Strokes
9
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — gěi, jǐ — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 给: 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.

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

Build a printable practice sheet with 给

Words with 给 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.

  1. 给gěito; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allowHSK 1
  2. 给予jǐyǔto give; to accord; to renderHSK 6
  3. 供给gōngjǐto furnish; to provide; supplyHSK 6
  4. 补给bǔjǐsupply; replenishment; to replenishHSK 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.