忠zhōng
loyalty, devotion, fidelity. 8 strokes, radical 心, first met in HSK 6.
Pinyin zhōngStrokes 8Radical 心Band HSK 6Words 1
What 忠 is made of
中 (zhōng, central) and 心 (xīn, heart).
心 carries the meaning — heart — and 中 carries the sound.
How to write 忠
Strokes 1–4 write 中, then strokes 5–8 write 心.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 忠
Words that use 忠
| 忠心 | loyally, devotion 指忠诚不二的心意 他脚踝有点肿，却依然忠心守在展厅。He still stayed loyally at his post in the hall. Lesson 691, 中外交流 · 洞明经世与乐居安邦 · Clarity of Vision & Harmonious Living |
Characters that share the sound part 中
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 心
All 60 of them, and what the radical means, on the 心 radical page.