Blood in Chinese (Mandarin): 血 (xiě)

Use it in a sentence

The characters in 血

• 血

  Blood. It began as a drawing of a bowl with a drop of blood in it.

  6 strokes

血 is read xiě in everyday speech and xuè in many words, such as 血液 (xuèyè, blood). Bleeding is 流血 (liú xiě).

More examples with 血

• 我的手流血了。

  Wǒ de shǒu liú xiě le.

  My hand is bleeding.

• 血是红色的。

  血是紅色的。

  Xiě shì hóngsè de.

  Blood is red.

How to write 血 in Chinese

Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.