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跟 — heel; to follow closely

heel; to follow closely; to go with; to marry sb; with

Pinyin
gēn
Strokes
13
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 跟: 13 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.

跟 — 13 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 跟 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. 跟gēnheel; to follow closely; to go with; to marry sbHSK 2
  2. 跟前gēnqiánthe front; front; sb's presence; just beforeHSK 6
  3. 跟随gēnsuíto followHSK 6
  4. 跟踪gēnzōngto follow sb's tracks; to tail; to shadow; trackingHSK 6
  5. 跟进gēnjìnto follow; to follow upHSK 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.