間 stroke order
Stroke by stroke
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- 10
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- 12
Words with 間
- 房间 fángjiān room
- 时间 shíjiān time (a point in time or an amount of time)
- 洗手间 xǐshǒujiān restroom
- 中间 zhōngjiān middle
- 卫生间 wèishēngjiān bathroom
- 之间 zhījiān between
- 时间表 shíjiānbiǎo timetable
- 空间 kōngjiān space
- 期间 qījiān period
- 夜间 yèjiān at night
How do you write 間?
間 (jiān) has 12 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.