观察 guānchá▶ quan sát

Stroke order

观察 is written in 20 strokes across 2 characters.

• 观 — 6 strokes
• 察 — 14 strokes

Related words

• 主观chủ quan
• 乐观lạc quan
• 客观khách quan; mục tiêu
• 悲观Chủ nghĩa bi quan
• 观念khái niệm
• 观点quan điểm

观察 is pronounced guānchá and means “quan sát”. It belongs to the HSK 5 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 观察 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.