8-Stroke Chinese Characters
Every Chinese character with exactly 8 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 with HSK level25 radical groups
氵 (water) · 3 characters
日 (sun) · 2 characters
月 (meat) · 2 characters
木 (tree) · 2 characters
纟 (silk) · 2 characters
讠 (speech) · 2 characters
亅 (hook) · 1 character
二 (two) · 1 character
冫 (ice) · 1 character
刂 (knife) · 1 character
又 (again) · 1 character
口 (mouth) · 1 character
囗 (enclosure) · 1 character
夂 (go) · 1 character
子 (child) · 1 character
宀 (roof) · 1 character
扌 (hand) · 1 character
攵 (rap) · 1 character
犭 (dog) · 1 character
王 (jade) · 1 character
白 (white) · 1 character
矢 (arrow) · 1 character
雨 (rain) · 1 character
非 (wrong) · 1 character
鱼 (fish) · 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, 9-stroke.