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需 — to require; to need; to want

to require; to need; to want; necessity; need

Pinyin
xū
Strokes
14
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 需: 14 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.

需 — 14 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 需

Words with 需 in the HSK syllabus: 7

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. 需要xūyàoto need; to want; to demand; to require; needsHSK 3
  2. 必需bìxūto need; to require; essential; indispensableHSK 5
  3. 急需jíxūto urgently need; urgent needHSK 5
  4. 需xūto require; to need; to want; necessity; needHSK 5
  5. 需求xūqiúrequirement; to require; demandHSK 5
  6. 供需gōngxūsupply and demandHSK 7–9
  7. 内需nèixūdomestic demandHSK 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.