之 stroke order
Stroke by stroke
- 1
- 2
- 3
Words with 之
- 之后 zhīhòu after
- 之间 zhījiān between
- 之前 zhīqián before
- 之中 zhīzhōng in
- 总之 zǒngzhī in short
- 之所以 zhīsuóyǐ the reason why (used with 是因为)
- 反之 fǎnzhī conversely
- 加之 jiāzhī moreover
- 之际 zhījì at the time of
- 不了了之 bùliáo-liǎozhī to end without resolution
How do you write 之?
之 (zhī) has 3 strokes. Watch them drawn in order, then trace it on the printable sheet.
What are the stroke order rules?
Top before bottom and left before right. Across before down (十), and left-falling before right-falling (人). Outside before inside, but close the box last (国). The middle before its two sides (小).
Why does stroke order matter?
Characters written in order look right, are faster to write, and are easier to remember. Handwriting input on a phone also reads strokes in their order.
Where do these strokes come from?
Make Me a Hanzi, drawn from Arphic’s fonts (Arphic Public License). Its order follows mainland China’s standard; Taiwan and Hong Kong write a few characters in another order.
More free tools
Chinese words: the HSK list, one page each. Pinyin chart: every syllable, all four tones. Your name in Chinese: how Chinese writes it.
Strokes from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0).