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16 strokes

joy

Stroke order animation

Character information

Pinyin
Meaning
joy
Strokes
16
HSK level
Traditional
Same

Origin & structure

Where comes from and how its parts fit together.

Ideograph⿰礻喜

Celebrating 喜 good fortune 礻; 壴 also provides the pronunciation

A combination of parts whose meanings add up to the whole.

Made of

Parts are arranged left to right.

How to write step by step

16 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.

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Words with

Common words using — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.

Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (reigned 1861-1908)

Open 慈禧 page →
xīn

Happy New Year!

Open 新禧 page →

the first year of a millennium (esp. the year 2000)

Open 千禧年 page →

Bai Chongxi (1893-1966), a leader of Guangxi warlord faction, top Nationalist general, …

Open 白崇禧 page →

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