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独立

dú lì 2–4

independent; independence; to stand alone

HSK level
HSK 4
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 4
Characters
2
独 · 立
Syllables
2
dú lì
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,876

Part of speech: a,v,ad,an,vn

Character by character

  • 独dú9 strokesHSK 4 traditional 獨alone, single, solitary, only
  • 立lì5 strokesHSK 3stand; let stand; establish, set

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 独立. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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