Chinese characters with 15 strokes (90)

body{font-family:sans-serif;max-width:860px;margin:40px auto;padding:0 20px;color:#1a1a2e}Chinese characters with 15 strokes (90)90 characters in our HSK lists are written with exactly 15 strokes.These are among the most complex characters in the lists. They are rarer, and almost always made of parts you already know from simpler ones.Of these 90 characters, 5 appear in HSK 3.0 levels 1–2 and 4 have a full word page. The radicals you will see most here: 扌 (shǒu) hand, 氵 (shuǐ) water, 忄 (xīn) heart, 足 (zú) foot.Common ones: 题 (tí) question / problem (on a test), 懂 (dǒng) understand, 踢 (tī) to kick, 影 (yǐng) shadow.Characters with 15 strokesHSK 3.0 level 1

题 (tí) - question / problem (on a test)

影 (yǐng) - shadow

HSK 3.0 level 2

懂 (dǒng) - understand

踢 (tī) - to kick

颜 (yán) - face, facial appearance

HSK 3.0 level 3

聪 (cōng) - sharp (of sight and hearing)

蕉 (jiāo) - banana

趣 (qù) - interesting

箱 (xiāng) - box

鞋 (xié) - shoe

HSK 3.0 level 4

播 (bō) - to sow

篇 (piān) - (measure word for articles, essays)

熟 (shú) - ripe

趟 (tàng) - (measure word for trips: a time)

躺 (tǎng) - to recline

增 (zēng) - (bound form) to increase

HSK 3.0 level 5

暴 (bào) - violent, brutal, tyrannical

蝶 (dié) - butterfly

蝴 (hú) - butterfly

糊 (hú) - muddled

慧 (huì) - intelligent

靠 (kào) - to lean against or on

蔬 (shū) - vegetables

慰 (wèi) - to comfort

橡 (xiàng) - oak

豫 (yù) - relaxed

震 (zhèn) - to shake

撞 (zhuàng) - to knock against

醉 (zuì) - intoxicated

遵 (zūn) - to follow, to comply with

HSK 3.0 level 6

踩 (cǎi) - to step on

潮 (cháo) - tide

嘲 (cháo) - to ridicule

撤 (chè) - to remove

撑 (chēng) - to support

醋 (cù) - vinegar

稻 (dào) - rice plant

德 (dé) - ethics, morality

额 (é) - forehead

稿 (gǎo) - manuscript

嘿 (hēi) - hey

横 (héng) - horizontal

稼 (jià) - to sow grain

箭 (jiàn) - arrow

履 (lǚ) - shoes

摩 (mó) - to rub

飘 (piāo) - variant of

潜 (qián) - hidden

撒 (sā) - to let go

鲨 (shā) - shark

艘 (sōu) - classifier for ships

踏 (tà) - to tread

镇 (zhèn) - to press down

踪 (zōng) - footprints, traces, tracks

HSK 3.0 levels 7–9

磅 (bàng) - scale (instrument for weighing)

憋 (biē) - to choke

槽 (cáo) - trough

澈 (chè) - clear

澄 (chéng) - clear

醇 (chún) - rich, pure, as good as wine

敷 (fū) - to spread

鹤 (hè) - crane

稽 (jī) - to examine

僵 (jiāng) - rigid

磕 (kē) - to tap

澜 (lán) - overflowing

磊 (lěi) - a pile of rocks

黎 (lí) - many, numerous

潦 (liáo) - to flood

瘤 (liú) - tumor

瞒 (mán) - to conceal from

霉 (méi) - mold

墨 (mò) - ink stick

僻 (pì) - remote

劈 (pī) - to hack

谴 (qiǎn) - to scold, to reprimand, to abuse

撬 (qiào) - to lift

撕 (sī) - to tear

潭 (tán) - deep pool

瘫 (tān) - paralyzed

膛 (táng) - hollow space

膝 (xī) - knee

嬉 (xī) - to amuse oneself

瞎 (xiā) - blind

毅 (yì) - firm and resolute

熨 (yù) - reconciled

蕴 (yùn) - to collect, to gather, to store

嘱 (zhǔ) - to instruct, to order, to tell

撰 (zhuàn) - to compose

幢 (zhuàng) - classifier for buildings

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Radicals and component data: Make Me a Hanzi by Shaunak Kishore (dictionary.txt, derived from Unihan and CJKlib), used under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3 or later. Make Me a Hanzi LGPL v3

Stroke counts: Make Me a Hanzi graphics.txt, derived from the Arphic PL KaitiM GB and Arphic PL UKai fonts by Arphic Technology, under the Arphic Public License - the same stroke data the animations use. Arphic Public License