What are the basic strokes of a Chinese character?

I. Classification of strokes in Chinese characters:

1. Stroke: It is the smallest unit that constitutes the shape of a character in italicized Chinese characters. Stroke shape is the shape of the strokes.

2. Main strokes: the five basic strokes of a Chinese character: horizontal (一)vertical (丨)撇(丿)点(丶)折(?). The first is the ""("").

3. The subordinate strokes are the ones that correspond to the main strokes.

4. Flat Stroke Forms: the four main strokes of horizontal, vertical, apostrophe and dot, and their corresponding sub-strokes.

5. Folding stroke: the main strokes and their corresponding subordinate strokes.

The basic strokes of Chinese characters:

The basic strokes of the Chinese Input Method include 6 flat brush strokes and 20 folded brush strokes. Flat brush strokes can be summarized into 6, as shown in the following table:

Folding brush strokes can be summarized into 20, and the folding brush strokes in the following table include the attached brush strokes and the folding brush strokes that can be summarized:

Bǐ huà (brush strokes) usually refers to the various shapes of dots and lines that make up a Chinese character and are uninterrupted, such as the horizontal (一), vertical (丨), apostrophe (丿), dots (丶), and folding (乛), which constitute the minimum connecting stroke unit of a Chinese character. It is the smallest unit of writing that makes up the shape of a Chinese character. Strokes sometimes also refer to the number of strokes, as in the index of strokes in the front of a character book. [1] ? In both cases, "笔画" can also be used as "笔划", but the current standard is "笔画". In addition, brushstrokes also refers to drawings drawn with a pen, this meaning is generally used in ancient books, people nowadays do not use or do not use.

Traditionally, there are eight basic strokes in Chinese characters, namely, "丶" (dot), "一" (horizontal), "丨" (vertical), "丿" (丿), "乀" (乀), "提", "乛" (folding), and "钩" (hooking), which is also known as "The Eight Methods of the Chinese Characters of the Yongzhi" (Yong Zhi Ba Fa), a Chinese character that is used in the Chinese language. The "List of Characters for Printing Common Chinese Characters" issued by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Character Reform Commission, and the "List of Common Characters for Modern Chinese" issued by the State Language and Literature Commission and the Press and Publication Administration of the People's Republic of China in March 1988 stipulate the five basic categories of strokes: horizontal, vertical, apostrophe, dot, and fold.

The fonts of Chinese characters are divided into two types: handwritten and printed. Handwriting refers to the handwritten form of text, which is flexible and easy to express personal style. Modern handwriting of Chinese characters mainly consists of Regular Script, Cursive Script, Running Script and so on. The handwritten form of Chinese characters varies according to the different hard and soft pens used for writing, such as the vertical pen form written with a hard pen, which can be divided into short vertical, long vertical, hanging needle vertical and hanging dew vertical when written with a soft pen (e.g., a hairbrush), and other forms of the pen.

Printing style refers to the printing form of the text, and there are four main printing styles of modern Chinese characters, namely Song style, Imitation Song style, Regular style, and Black style, of which Song style and Regular style are the most commonly used printing styles. Before the Chinese character glyphs were sorted out, there were big differences in the pen shapes and gestures between the printed Song and the printed Regular forms, such as the "i.e." in the printed Regular form. In order to make the character shapes of the printed Song and the printed Regular forms as consistent as possible, and to bring the printed Song form closer to the printed Regular form, the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China (P.R.C.) and the China Script Reform Commission (now the State Language and Literature Working Committee) organized a workshop in 1965, which was held by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China. The Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Character Reform Commission (today's State Language and Literature Commission) issued on January 30, 1965 the "Printing General Chinese Character Character Forms Table" to standardize the printing general Chinese character forms.

What is usually referred to as strokes is analyzed in terms of the mainstream fonts for printing (Song, Regular, etc.). There are two general ways of categorizing the strokes of modern Chinese characters: a rough classification divides the strokes into eight categories (yongzhi hafa) or five (zazi hafa); and a more detailed classification divides the strokes into the basic ones and the derived ones (composite strokes). When writing, the direction of the strokes remains unchanged from the beginning is called basic strokes (i.e., flat strokes), and the strokes that change direction are called derived strokes (compound strokes, i.e., folded strokes).

Strokes are a line that is written continuously at one time without interruption when a Chinese character is written, and they are the smallest component unit of a Chinese character. A meticulous classification method divides strokes into two categories: basic strokes and derived strokes (compound strokes). When writing, the direction of the strokes remains unchanged from the beginning, called basic strokes (i.e., flat strokes), and the direction of the strokes changes, called derived strokes (compound strokes, i.e., folded strokes). What is now more widely accepted by academics is summarized by Zhang Jingxian from the 6,196 characters in the Printing General Chinese Character Form List.

There are 6 basic strokes (i.e., flat strokes) and 25 derived strokes (i.e., folding strokes). The 6 basic strokes include: horizontal (一), vertical (丨), skimming (丿), dotting (丶), downstrokes (?) The six basic strokes are: horizontal (一), vertical (丨), apostrophe (丿), dot (丶), and press (?). , horizontal apostrophe (?) , horizontal hook (?), horizontal folding hook (?) , horizontal folding lift (?) , horizontal bend (?) , Horizontal Folding Fold (?) "horizontal slanting hook (?) , Horizontal crook (?) "Hooks", "Hooks", "Hooks", "Hooks", "Hooks", "Hooks". "Hengchu", "Hengchu", "Hengchu", "Hengchu", "Hengchu". "Hengchu", "Hengchu", "Hengchu", "Hengchu", "Hengchu". "Heng", "Heng", "Heng", "Heng", "Heng", "Heng", "Heng". Vertical lift (?) , Vertical Fold (?) , vertical hook (?), vertical bend (?) , vertical hook (?), vertical crook ( 乚), vertical stroke ( ㄣ), vertical fold (?) , Vertical Folding Hook (?) , apostrophe dot (?) , apostrophe (?) , slanting hook (?) and crook (?) The Chinese characters in the printed italicized form are not only these 25 characters. In addition to these 25 types of folding strokes, there is another type of folding stroke "?" (commonly known as "lying hook"). [7-8] ? Recognizing the shape of the strokes and counting the number of strokes will help guide writing and dictionary checking.

According to the Regular Script standard, there are five main stroke forms: the horizontal (一), the vertical (丨), the radical (丿), the dot (丶), and the fold (?). There are five main brush forms, of which the horizontal, vertical, apostrophe and dot can be subdivided into nine.

Note: Sometimes the horizontal oblique hook (?) is also categorized as a horizontal bending hook (?). are categorized as horizontal bending hooks (? , b), and the vertical bend (?) categorized to vertical folded apostrophe (ㄣ), horizontal folded (?) Categorized into horizontal bends (?) Crouching hook (?) Categorized to oblique hook (?) .

Besides the 32 kinds of strokes mentioned above, there are some other strokes that are only used for individual characters. For example, the stroke "? (横捺)" is used in "璁、亪", etc., and "? (circle)" is used in "〇、? ????? , ?" (circle)" is used in "〇、?、?、?", etc., and the stroke "撇横斜弯钩" is used in "? (yà, 燕子)" etc. The stroke "? (apostrophe)" is used for "shime" and so on.