Learn Chinese: Some Chinese characters evolved from pictures. Indeed, many people describe writing Chinese characters as similar in feeling to painting. However, Chinese characters are not merely a random aggregation of lines. They must be written one stroke at a time in an orderly manner. One “stroke” refers to the connected segment that is formed between the pen down on paper and lifting it up again.

Although there are tens of thousands of Chinese characters, if you have ever studied Chinese, there are only six basic strokes.
“┼”: horizontal stroke (from left to right)
“ㄧ”: vertical stroke (from top to bottom)
“ノ”: long diagonal stroke (falling from right to left)
“、”: dot stroke.
“ ”: right-falling stroke
“ ”: diagonal stroke(rising from left to right)

These are the six basic strokes. When writing Chinese characters, some of these strokes are combined, resulting in what are known as “derived strokes”. There are 25 different derived strokes. In addition, when writing Chinese characters, we must pay attention to the order in which the strokes are written.

Chinese characters follow three basic rules: upper strokes before lower strokes; left before right; horizontal strokes before vertical strokes. In summary, every Chinese character is written one stroke at a time and in a highly ordered manner. These strokes combine to portray a rich and colorful world and, in doing so, reveal the boundless wisdom of Chinese characters.

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