5-Stroke Chinese Characters
Every Chinese character with exactly 5 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 level25 radical groups
口 (mouth) · 3 characters
一 (one) · 2 characters
亻 (person) · 2 characters
木 (tree) · 2 characters
冖 (cover) · 1 character
凵 (open box) · 1 character
力 (power) · 1 character
勹 (wrap) · 1 character
十 (ten) · 1 character
厶 (private) · 1 character
又 (again) · 1 character
囗 (enclosure) · 1 character
夂 (go) · 1 character
夕 (evening) · 1 character
大 (big) · 1 character
女 (woman) · 1 character
寸 (inch) · 1 character
巾 (turban) · 1 character
扌 (hand) · 1 character
日 (sun) · 1 character
止 (stop) · 1 character
生 (life) · 1 character
田 (field) · 1 character
白 (white) · 1 character
讠 (speech) · 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, 6-stroke, 7-stroke, 8-stroke, 9-stroke.