狗gǒu
dog. 8 strokes, radical 犭, first met in HSK 2.
Pinyin gǒuStrokes 8Radical 犭Band HSK 2Words 1
What 狗 is made of
犭 (quǎn, dog) and 句 (jù, sentence).
犭 carries the meaning — dog — and 句 carries the sound.
How to write 狗
Strokes 1–3 write 犭, then strokes 4–8 write 句.
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 狗
Words that use 狗
| 狗 | dog 常被人养作宠物、会汪汪叫的动物 小狗在草地上快乐地跑着。The dog runs happily on the grass. Lesson 27, 公园 · 刚毅果决与物换星移 · Fortitude, Precision & Social Fellowship |
Characters that share the sound part 句
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 犭
All 13 of them, and what the radical means, on the 犭 radical page.