浅qiǎn
shallow. 8 strokes, radical 氵, first met in HSK 4.
Pinyin qiǎnStrokes 8Radical 氵Band HSK 4Words 1
How to write 浅
Strokes 1–3 write 氵, then strokes 4–8 write 戋.
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 浅 · the stroke-order rules
What 浅 is made of
氵 (shuǐ, water) and 戋 (jiān, small).
氵 carries the meaning — water — and 戋 carries the sound.
Words that use 浅
| 浅 | shallow 从上面到底部的距离很短，不深 厂区旁的小溪水很浅，能看到溪底。The stream by the plant is very shallow, so you can see the bottom. Lesson 327, 绿能潮涌与时代脉搏 · 金秋佳景与善邻新篇 · Golden Harvests, Clean Energy & Community Warmth |
Characters that share the sound part 戋
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 氵
All 76 of them, and what the radical means, on the 氵 radical page.