哭泣 kūqì▶ khóc

Stroke order

哭泣 is written in 18 strokes across 2 characters.

• 哭 — 10 strokes
• 泣 — 8 strokes

Related words

• 哭khóc

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