尴尬 gāngà▶ canggung

Stroke order

尴尬 is written in 20 strokes across 2 characters.

• 尴 — 13 strokes
• 尬 — 7 strokes

Related words

• 干预campur tangan
• 感慨Perasaan

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