学
xué to study
8 strokesTraditional 學
Where the shape comes from
A child, 子, under a cover, with marks above it. The traditional form 學 shows two hands passing on knowledge, and simplification kept the child.
Write it
Watch the order first, then trace it with the guide, then write it from memory. The model comes back over your strokes so you can see where the shape drifted.
Press Watch to see the stroke order.
Stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi via Hanzi Writer, Arphic Public License.
Three words that use it
Watch out
The mistake people make
Confusing it with 字, zì, character, which has a roof with a dot, 宀, over the same child.
The traditional form
In Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau this character is written 學. It is the same word with the same sound and meaning. This course teaches the simplified form, and the traditional one is here so you recognise it when you see it.