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七 qī — “seven”

How to write and say the Chinese character 七 (qī), which means seven — with stroke order, audio, its story, and an example sentence. Theme: Numbers & counting.

Stroke order笔顺

七 is written with 2 strokes, in this order (the red stroke is the one being added):

The story behind it字源小故事

Looks like 十 with the bottom stroke bent up — an old cross-cut sign that came to mean seven.

A common word常用词

Example sentence例句

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