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着 zhe — “(happening right now)”

How to write and say the Chinese character 着 (zhe), which means (happening right now) — with stroke order, audio, its story, and an example sentence. Theme: Little glue words.

Stroke order笔顺

着 is written with 11 strokes, in this order (the red stroke is the one being added):

The story behind it字源小故事

It grew out of 著 — now it sticks to an action word to say it's happening right now.

A common word常用词

Example sentence例句

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