What are the basic strokes of Chinese characters?

The basic strokes of Chinese characters are as follows:

1. horizontal: the starting stroke is slightly heavier, the running stroke is lighter to the right, and the closing stroke is slightly pressed to the right, so the whole stroke is in the form of a left-low, right-high, downward swooping trend;

2. vertical: the vertical strokes have to be written vertically, because they often play a key supporting role in a character, and the character is not correct if the vertical strokes are not vertical;

3. apostrophe: apostrophe is a very decorative character. Decorative, if you can write a natural stretch, will increase the beauty of the word, and sometimes symmetrical with the paintings play a role in balancing and stabilizing the center of gravity;

4, down: down with a slant down and flat down points, slanting down lighter to the right down from light to heavy line, line to the foot of the heavy press pen, and then to the horizontal direction of the right from heavy to light to drag out the pen, the pen to the point of the closing. The flat downward strokes are the same as the diagonal downward strokes, but the single downward strokes should first write a small short horizontal stroke, and then move to the right downward strokes;

5. Dots: Dots are as important as human eyes in a character, and they are the spiritual embodiment of a character. There are right point, left point, vertical point and long point;

6, vertical bend: write a short vertical, and then turn to the right horizontal direction to write a short horizontal, a little heavier to close the pen;

7, vertical hooks: on the basis of the vertical hooks, closing the pen to the upper hook, the stroke is a little longer than the vertical bends.