吃
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吃 Stroke Order: How to Write 吃

Pinyin
chī
Meaning
to eat
Total strokes
6
More meanings

to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)

Stroke order
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Every character begins with a single stroke.
0 / 6 strokes

One stroke at a time

6 strokes

吃 — 6 strokes

Radical: 口 kǒu (mouth)

Strokes in order

  1. 1.竖shù · Vertical stroke
  2. 2.横折héng zhé · Horizontal turning stroke
  3. 3.横héng · Horizontal stroke
  4. 4.撇piě · Left-falling stroke
  5. 5.横héng · Horizontal stroke
  6. 6.横撇折héng piě zhé · Horizontal left-falling turning stroke
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