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形式

xíng shì 2–4

outer appearance; form; shape; formality

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
形 · 式
Syllables
2
xíng shì
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 2,476

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 形xíng7 strokesHSK 3form, shape, appearance
  • 式shì6 strokesHSK 3style, system, formula, rule

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 形式. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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