笨拙 bènzhuō▶ canggung

Stroke order

笨拙 is written in 19 strokes across 2 characters.

• 笨 — 11 strokes
• 拙 — 8 strokes

Senses

1. clumsy
2. awkward
3. stupid

Related words

• 笨bodoh

笨拙 is pronounced bènzhuō and means “canggung”. It belongs to the HSK 6 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 笨拙 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.