刺 cì▶ หนาม

Stroke order

刺 is written in 8 strokes.

• 刺

Senses

1. thorn
2. sting
3. thrust
4. to prick
5. to pierce
6. to stab
7. to assassinate
8. to murder

Related words

• 刺激กระตุ้น
• 讽刺การเสียดสี

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