旗袍 qípáo▶ cheongsam

Stroke order

旗袍 is written in 24 strokes across 2 characters.

• 旗 — 14 strokes
• 袍 — 10 strokes

Related words

• 旗帜bandera

旗袍 is pronounced qípáo and means “cheongsam”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 旗袍 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.