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脸 — face

Pinyin
liǎn
Strokes
11
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 脸: 11 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.

脸 — 11 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 脸 in the HSK syllabus: 5

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. 脸liǎnfaceHSK 3
  2. 脸色liǎnsècomplexion; lookHSK 5
  3. 愁眉苦脸chóuméi-kǔliǎnto look anxious; to look miserableHSK 7–9
  4. 丢脸diūliǎnto lose face; humiliationHSK 7–9
  5. 脸颊liǎnjiácheekHSK 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.