What are the basic strokes of Chinese characters?

Traditionally, there are eight basic strokes in Chinese characters, namely "丶" (dot), "横" (一) (horizontal), "竖" (丨) (vertical), "撇" (丿) (丿), "捺" (????) and "提 and fold (?). The "Eight Methods of Winged Characters" is also known as the "Eight Methods of Winged Characters".

The "List of Printed Chinese Characters" issued by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Character Reform Commission on January 30, 1965, and the "List of Modern Chinese Characters" 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 that there are five types of basic strokes: the horizontal, vertical, apostrophe, dot, and fold.

By the Regular Script standard, Chinese characters have five main brushstrokes: horizontal (一), vertical (丨), apostrophe (丿), dot (丶), and fold (???). There are five main brush forms, of which the horizontal, vertical, apostrophe and dot can be subdivided into nine subsidiary brush forms: horizontal, mention (趯), vertical, vertical hook, apostrophe, vertical skimmer, dot, press, and mention (提捺).

Expanded Information

Use of Strokes:

1. Index of Stroke Checks in Zuo Min'an's "Detailed Explanation of Chinese Characters".

2. The four-corner code index, which was mainly used in the early days for typesetting in the publishing industry and for checking characters in dictionaries. The coding principle of the four-corner code is to divide the basic strokes of a Chinese character (including single strokes and multiple strokes) into 10 kinds, which are represented by the ten digits of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0, and to take the stroke codes of the four corners of a Chinese character in sequence as the code of the Chinese character. Divide each character into four corners, determine a number for each corner, and then arrange all the characters in the order of the size of the four digits composed of the four numbers.

It divides Chinese character strokes into ten categories -- head, horizontal, vertical, point, fork, insertion, square, corner, eight, and small -- which are then represented by the numbers 0 to 9 respectively. The four corners of each character's stroke forms are numbered in the order of their positions upper left, upper right, lower left and lower right. Check the word, according to the size of the four numbers to find the word, the four corner number of the number of song is: cross a hanging two or three points, fork four insert five box six, seven corner eight eight nine is small, point under the horizontal change zero. Later, some people have prepared a four-cornered code input method according to this method.

3. Stroke input method, a coding method used to input Chinese characters into computers or electronic devices such as cell phones.