擇 stroke order
Stroke by stroke
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Words with 擇
- 选择 xuǎnzé to choose
- 抉择 juézé choice
- 不择手段 bùzé-shǒuduàn by any means necessary
- 慌不择路 huāngbù-zélù to flee in panic in any direction
- 物竞天择 wùjìng-tiānzé natural selection
How do you write 擇?
擇 (zé) has 16 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.
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Strokes from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Meanings from our own dictionary.