How to write "I love you" in Chinese — 我爱你 stroke by stroke

我爱你 — wǒ ài nǐ — i love you. 3 characters, 24 strokes in total.

Stroke by stroke

• 我

  wǒ

  7 strokes

  HSK 1

• 爱

  ài

  10 strokes

  HSK 1

• 你

  nǐ

  7 strokes

  HSK 1

我 wǒ · Stroke order

爱 ài · Stroke order

你 nǐ · Stroke order

Each character sits in a 田字格 (tiánzìgé), the four-quadrant grid Chinese children learn to write in — the dashed lines show you where the parts of a character should sit relative to each other.

Practice sheet

Trace the grey characters, then fill the empty boxes. Print this sheet

• 我
• 爱
• 你

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