哭kūto cry
How 哭 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.
Examples
孩子们在哭。
Háizimen zài kū.
The children are crying.
- 孩子háizichild
- 们menplural suffix
- 在zàito be at; in
- 哭kūto cry
她哭了一个小时。
Tā kū le yī gè xiǎoshí.
She cried for an hour.
- 她tāshe
- 哭kūto cry
- 了lecompleted action marker
- 一yīone
- 个gègeneral measure word
- 小时xiǎoshíhour
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.
- 苦
- 不bùno
- 读