药
HSK 2 · Elementary
药 Stroke Order: How to Write 药
- Pinyin
- yào
- Meaning
- leaf of the iris
- Total strokes
- 9
More meanings
leaf of the iris; variant of 药
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Every character begins with a single stroke.
One stroke at a time
9 strokes药 — 9 strokes
Radical: 艹 cǎo (grass, weed, plant, herb)
Strokes in order
- 1.横héng · Horizontal stroke
- 2.竖shù · Vertical stroke
- 3.竖shù · Vertical stroke
- 4.竖钩shù gōu · Vertical hook stroke
- 5.撇折piě zhé · Left-falling turning stroke
- 6.横héng · Horizontal stroke
- 7.撇piě · Left-falling stroke
- 8.横折héng zhé · Horizontal turning stroke
- 9.点diǎn · Dot stroke