义务 yìwù▶ nghĩa vụ

Stroke order

义务 is written in 8 strokes across 2 characters.

• 义 — 3 strokes
• 务 — 5 strokes

Related words

• 业务kinh doanh
• 商务kinh doanh
• 家务Việc nhà
• 意义Ý nghĩa
• 主义học thuyết
• 事务Vụ việc; công việc

义务 is pronounced yìwù and means “nghĩa vụ”. You will meet it in HSK 5, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 义务 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.