脈 stroke order
Stroke by stroke
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
Words with 脈
- 动脉 dòngmài artery
- 脉搏 màibó pulse (fig., of the times)
- 脉络 màiluò thread of thought
- 山脉 shānmài mountain range
- 血脉 xuèmài blood vessels
- 来龙去脉 láilóng-qùmài the whole story
- 一脉相承 yīmài-xiāngchéng to come down in an unbroken line
- 含情脉脉 hánqíng-mòmò tender and affectionate
- 温情脉脉 wēnqíng-mòmò tender and affectionate
How do you write 脈?
脈 (mài) has 10 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.