要
HSK 2 · Elementary
要 Stroke Order: How to Write 要
- Pinyin
- yāo
- Meaning
- to want; will; need
- Total strokes
- 9
More meanings
(bound form) to demand; to coerce
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Every character begins with a single stroke.
One stroke at a time
9 strokes要 — 9 strokes
Radical: 覀 xī (west, western, westward)
Strokes in order
- 1.横héng · Horizontal stroke
- 2.竖shù · Vertical stroke
- 3.横折héng zhé · Horizontal turning stroke
- 4.竖shù · Vertical stroke
- 5.竖shù · Vertical stroke
- 6.横héng · Horizontal stroke
- 7.竖折shù zhé · Vertical turning stroke
- 8.撇piě · Left-falling stroke
- 9.横héng · Horizontal stroke