10-Stroke Chinese Characters
Every Chinese character with exactly 10 strokes in the HSK 1-6 vocabulary, grouped by radical. Stroke count is a stable indexing signal for dictionaries, handwriting input, and fast character recall.
32 characters32 on the new HSK exam25 radical groups
木 (tree) · 4 characters
亻 (person) · 2 characters
宀 (roof) · 2 characters
月 (meat) · 2 characters
讠 (speech) · 2 characters
丿 (slash) · 1 character
冫 (ice) · 1 character
厂 (cliff) · 1 character
又 (again) · 1 character
口 (mouth) · 1 character
夊 (go slowly) · 1 character
尸 (corpse) · 1 character
手 (hand) · 1 character
攵 (rap) · 1 character
氵 (water) · 1 character
爫 (claw) · 1 character
目 (eye) · 1 character
立 (stand) · 1 character
竹 (bamboo) · 1 character
衤 (clothes) · 1 character
车 (cart) · 1 character
辶 (walk) · 1 character
钅 (gold) · 1 character
阝 (mound) · 1 character
高 (tall) · 1 character
Why stroke count matters
Every Chinese character has a fixed stroke count, counted with standardised rules from the 1988 GB 13000 spec. It matters for three workflows:
- Dictionary lookup. Paper dictionaries and many apps sort entries by stroke count after radical, so knowing how many strokes a character has lets you find it without pinyin.
- Handwriting input. Stroke-based keyboards (Wubi, Cangjie, stroke-count IME) rank candidates partly by stroke total.
- Recall. Low-stroke characters (1-5) are almost all HSK 1-2 and high frequency; mid-stroke (6-10) cluster at HSK 3-4; high-stroke (11+) skew HSK 5-6. Learning by stroke bucket doubles as a rough frequency curriculum.
Compare other counts: 1-stroke, 2-stroke, 3-stroke, 4-stroke, 5-stroke, 6-stroke, 7-stroke, 8-stroke.
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