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舒 — to stretch; to unfold; to relax

to stretch; to unfold; to relax; leisurely

Pinyin
shū · Shū
Strokes
12
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

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

How to write 舒: 12 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.

舒 — 12 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 舒

Words with 舒 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. 舒服shūfucomfortable; feeling wellHSK 2
  2. 舒适shūshìcozy; snugHSK 5
  3. 舒畅shūchànghappy; entirely free from worryHSK 7–9
  4. 舒展shūzhǎnto roll out; to extend; to smooth out; to unfoldHSK 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.