9-Stroke Chinese Characters
Every Chinese character with exactly 9 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.
38 characters38 with HSK level27 radical groups
日 (sun) · 4 characters
艹 (grass) · 3 characters
心 (heart) · 2 characters
目 (eye) · 2 characters
纟 (silk) · 2 characters
讠 (speech) · 2 characters
辶 (walk) · 2 characters
阝 (mound) · 2 characters
亻 (person) · 1 character
刂 (knife) · 1 character
口 (mouth) · 1 character
土 (earth) · 1 character
宀 (roof) · 1 character
寸 (inch) · 1 character
巾 (turban) · 1 character
彳 (step) · 1 character
木 (tree) · 1 character
殳 (weapon) · 1 character
氵 (water) · 1 character
灬 (fire) · 1 character
田 (field) · 1 character
禾 (grain) · 1 character
穴 (cave) · 1 character
覀 (west) · 1 character
见 (see) · 1 character
面 (face) · 1 character
首 (head) · 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.