As we know English words are composed of 26 alphabets, arranged from left to right. The Chinese characters, on the other hand, are made up of combinations of about a dozen or so “strokes", known as [bihua]. (The word stroke Stroke is used in a very general manner. It could be a stroke, a hook, an angle, etc). There are relatively few types of strokes, the composition and combination of these strokes form various Chinese characters.
The common strokes include:
Horizontal stoke [heng]
Vertical stroke [shu]
Downward stroke to the left [pie]
Downward stoke to the right [na]
Upward stroke to the right [ti]
Dot [dian]
Right angle stroke [zhe]
There are
several types of hook [gou] depicted as
In addition there are combinations of some of the above strokes.
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