单元 dānyuán▶ unidad

Stroke order

单元 is written in 12 strokes across 2 characters.

• 单 — 8 strokes
• 元 — 4 strokes

Senses

1. unit (forming an entity)
2. element
3. (in a residential building) entrance or staircase

Related words

• 元旦Día de Año Nuevo
• 公元d.C.
• 单位Compañía, empresa
• 单独Solo
• 单纯Simple
• 单调monótono

单元 is pronounced dānyuán and means “unidad”. You will meet it in HSK 5, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 单元 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.