爛 stroke order
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Words with 爛
- 灿烂 cànlàn brilliant
- 腐烂 fǔlàn to rot
- 海枯石烂 hǎikū-shílàn till the seas run dry and the rocks crumble (vow of eternal love)
- 焦头烂额 jiāotóu-làn’é badly battered
- 滚瓜烂熟 gǔnguā-lànshú to know by heart
- 光辉灿烂 guānghuī-cànlàn brilliant
- 破烂不堪 pòlàn-bùkān dilapidated
- 天真烂漫 tiānzhēn-lànmàn innocent and artless
- 三寸不烂之舌 sāncùnbùlànzhīshé silver tongue
- 摆烂 bǎilàn to deliberately give up and let things get worse
How do you write 爛?
爛 (làn) has 21 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.