Chinese characters with 5 strokes (145)

body{font-family:sans-serif;max-width:860px;margin:40px auto;padding:0 20px;color:#1a1a2e}Chinese characters with 5 strokes (145)145 characters in our HSK lists are written with exactly 5 strokes.Characters of this size are mostly simple compounds, often a radical plus one more part, and many of the first words learners meet are written with them.Of these 145 characters, 34 appear in HSK 3.0 levels 1–2 and 32 have a full word page. The radicals you will see most here: 口 (kǒu) mouth, 亻 (rén) person, 一 (yī) one, 讠 (yán) speech.Common ones: 白 (bái) white, 半 (bàn) half, 包 (bāo) bag / package / bundle, 本 (běn) measure word for books.Characters with 5 strokesHSK 3.0 level 1

白 (bái) - white

半 (bàn) - half

包 (bāo) - bag / package / bundle

本 (běn) - measure word for books

边 (biān) - side

出 (chū) - go out / exit

打 (dǎ) - hit / beat / call (phone)

电 (diàn) - lightning

东 (dōng) - east

对 (duì) - correct / towards

汉 (hàn) - Chinese people

号 (hào) - number / date

叫 (jiào) - be called / call / shout

可 (kě) - (prefix) can

们 (men) - plural marker for pronouns

奶 (nǎi) - milk

去 (qù) - go

生 (shēng) - to be born

市 (shì) - market

四 (sì) - four

司 (sī) - to take charge of

他 (tā) - he / him

它 (tā) - it (things, animals)

外 (wài) - outside / foreign / external

写 (xiě) - write

正 (zhèng) - just (in the middle of doing)

只 (zhǐ) - only

HSK 3.0 level 2

记 (jì) - to record

乐 (lè) - happy

鸟 (niǎo) - bird

让 (ràng) - let / allow / make

头 (tóu) - head / top / first

右 (yòu) - right / right side

左 (zuǒ) - left / left side

HSK 3.0 level 3

北 (běi) - north

必 (bì) - certainly

处 (chǔ) - to reside

冬 (dōng) - winter

发 (fā) - send / issue / emit

瓜 (guā) - melon

乎 (hū) - interrogative or exclamatory final…

加 (jiā) - add / plus / increase

节 (jié) - festival

旧 (jiù) - old / used / former

句 (jù) - sentence

卡 (kǎ) - card

礼 (lǐ) - courtesy

末 (mò) - tip

目 (mù) - eye / item / category

平 (píng) - flat

且 (qiě) - and

世 (shì) - generation, era, age

史 (shǐ) - history

务 (wù) - affairs, business

业 (yè) - line of business

议 (yì) - to comment on

用 (yòng) - use / apply

主 (zhǔ) - to own

HSK 3.0 level 4

尔 (ěr) - you

付 (fù) - to pay

功 (gōng) - meritorious deed or service

厉 (lì) - whetstone

另 (lìng) - other

民 (mín) - the people

母 (mǔ) - mother

皮 (pí) - leather

巧 (qiǎo) - opportunely

扔 (rēng) - to throw

申 (shēn) - to report

示 (shì) - to show

失 (shī) - to lose

术 (shù) - method

帅 (shuài) - handsome

台 (tái) - platform

讨 (tǎo) - to invite

兄 (xiōng) - elder brother

叶 (yè) - leaf, page

印 (yìn) - to print

永 (yǒng) - forever

由 (yóu) - to follow

仔 (zǎi) - young

汁 (zhī) - juice

HSK 3.0 level 5

布 (bù) - cloth

册 (cè) - book

代 (dài) - to substitute

旦 (dàn) - dawn

古 (gǔ) - ancient / old / past

汇 (huì) - to remit

甲 (jiǎ) - (used for an unspecified person or…

立 (lì) - to stand

令 (lìng) - to order

龙 (lóng) - dragon

矛 (máo) - spear

石 (shí) - stone / rock

未 (wèi) - not yet

训 (xùn) - to teach

幼 (yòu) - young

玉 (yù) - jade

占 (zhàn) - to take possession of

召 (zhào) - to call together

HSK 3.0 level 6

匆 (cōng) - hastily, hurriedly, in a rush

犯 (fàn) - to violate

归 (guī) - to return

击 (jī) - to hit

饥 (jī) - hungry

纠 (jiū) - tangled

刊 (kān) - to print

灭 (miè) - to extinguish or put out

扑 (pū) - to throw oneself at

闪 (shǎn) - to dodge

田 (tián) - field / farmland

讯 (xùn) - news, information

央 (yāng) - central

仪 (yí) - apparatus

孕 (yùn) - pregnant

仗 (zhàng) - weaponry

HSK 3.0 levels 7–9

艾 (ài) - Chinese mugwort

凹 (āo) - depressed

扒 (bā) - to peel

叭 (bā) - trumpet

丙 (bǐng) - third in order

斥 (chì) - to blame

丛 (cóng) - cluster

叨 (dāo) - talkative

叼 (diāo) - to hold with one's mouth

叮 (dīng) - to sting or bite

甘 (gān) - sweet

禾 (hé) - grain plant

弘 (hóng) - great

卉 (huì) - plants

辽 (liáo) - distant, far

宁 (níng) - calm, peaceful

奴 (nú) - slave

囚 (qiú) - prisoner

丘 (qiū) - mound

圣 (shèng) - holy, sacred

矢 (shǐ) - arrow

甩 (shuǎi) - to throw

丝 (sī) - silk

叹 (tàn) - to sigh

凸 (tū) - to stick out

仙 (xiān) - immortal

玄 (xuán) - black

穴 (xué) - cave

驭 (yù) - to drive, to ride

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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