扣kòu
button, to fasten. 6 strokes, radical 扌, first met in HSK 6.
Pinyin kòuStrokes 6Radical 扌Band HSK 6Words 1
How to write 扣
Strokes 1–3 write 扌, then strokes 4–6 write 口.
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 扣 · the stroke-order rules
What 扣 is made of
扌 (shǒu, hand) and 口 (kǒu, mouth).
扌 carries the meaning — hand — and 口 carries the sound.
Words that use 扣
| 扣 | button, to fasten 指衣服上的纽子 有人紧张得把扣子系错了。One was so nervous he did his buttons up wrong. Lesson 610, 招飞口试 · 驰骛四方与格物明理 · Broad Horizons & Rational Discernment |
Characters that share the sound part 口
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 扌
All 105 of them, and what the radical means, on the 手 radical page.