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数 shù — “number”

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

Stroke order笔顺

数 is written with 13 strokes, in this order (the red stroke is the one being added):

The story behind it字源小故事

攵 (script) hints at the meaning, and 娄 lends its sound — together they make 数.

A common word常用词

Example sentence例句

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