4-Stroke Chinese Characters
Every Chinese character with exactly 4 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.
30 characters30 with HSK level27 radical groups
人 (person) · 2 characters
亻 (person) · 2 characters
大 (big) · 2 characters
一 (one) · 1 character
丨 (line) · 1 character
丶 (dot) · 1 character
乙 (second) · 1 character
八 (eight) · 1 character
刀 (knife) · 1 character
十 (ten) · 1 character
又 (again) · 1 character
小 (small) · 1 character
廾 (two hands) · 1 character
手 (hand) · 1 character
方 (square) · 1 character
日 (sun) · 1 character
月 (meat) · 1 character
比 (compare) · 1 character
气 (steam) · 1 character
水 (water) · 1 character
片 (slice) · 1 character
牛 (cow) · 1 character
见 (see) · 1 character
讠 (speech) · 1 character
车 (cart) · 1 character
长 (long) · 1 character
风 (wind) · 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, 5-stroke, 6-stroke, 7-stroke, 8-stroke, 9-stroke.