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两 liǎng — “two (of something)”

How to write and say the Chinese character 两 (liǎng), which means two (of something) — with stroke order, audio, its story, and an example sentence. Theme: Numbers & counting.

Stroke order笔顺

两 is written with 7 strokes, in this order (the red stroke is the one being added):

The story behind it字源小故事

Picture it: two people 从 together in a cart.

A common word常用词

Example sentence例句

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