岩石 yánshí▶ batu

Stroke order

岩石 is written in 13 strokes across 2 characters.

• 岩 — 8 strokes
• 石 — 5 strokes

Related words

• 化石Fosil
• 石油minyak bumi
• 钻石Berlian
• 石头batu

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