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咸xiánsalty

Theme
Food
Level
HSK 4
Strokes
9
Syllable
xian

How 咸 is written

Stroke order matters: it sets the proportions of the character and how a reader will parse it. In the trainer these same boxes reject a stroke drawn out of turn.

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

Build a practice sheet with 咸

Examples

这个菜太咸了。

Zhège cài tài xián le.

This dish is too salty.

  • 这个zhègethis one
  • 菜càidish; vegetable
  • 太tàitoo; excessively
  • 咸xiánsalty
  • 了lecompleted action marker

我不喜欢太咸的东西。

Wǒ bù xǐhuan tài xián de dōngxi.

I don't like food that is too salty.

  • 我wǒI
  • 不bùno
  • 喜欢xǐhuanto like
  • 太tàitoo; excessively
  • 咸xiánsalty
  • 的depossessive particle
  • 东西dōngxithing

Not to be confused with

Characters that look or sound alike. The trainer mixes them into the answer options for exactly that reason — so the difference sticks.

  • 减
  • 感
  • 威