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永 'forever' or 'permanence', a Chinese character that represents a variety of strokes, and is often used to demonstrate the major stroke categories. Strokes (simplified Chinese: 笔画; traditional Chinese: 筆畫; pinyin: bǐhuà) are the smallest structural units making up written Chinese characters.
This standard stipulates the stroke orders for the 8,105 characters in the List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters. [3] and can be used for Chinese character information processing, publishing and printing, reference book compilation, etc. It can also be used for teaching and research of Chinese characters.
Strokes (笔画; 筆劃; bǐhuà) are the smallest building units of Chinese characters. When writing a Chinese character, the trace of a dot or a line left on the writing material (such as paper) from pen-down to pen-up is called a stroke. [4] Strokes combine with each other in a Chinese character in different ways.
Chinese characters are logograms constructed with strokes. Over the millennia a set of generally agreed rules have been developed by custom. Minor variations exist between countries, but the basic principles remain the same, namely that writing characters should be economical, with the fewest hand movements to write the most strokes possible.
Modern Chinese dictionaries continue to use the Kangxi radical-stroke order, both in traditional zìdiǎn (字典, lit. "character/logograph dictionary") for written Chinese characters and modern cídiǎn (詞典 "word/phrase dictionary") for spoken expressions. The 214 Kangxi radicals act as a de facto standard, which may not be duplicated ...
Chinese character components (Pinyin: hànzì bùjiàn; Traditional Chinese: 漢字部件; Simplified Chinese: 汉字部件) are Chinese character building blocks composed of strokes. [10] In most cases, a component is larger than a stroke (i.e., consists of more than one stroke) and smaller than the whole character (combines with some other ...
The Chinese character 永 (yǒng), meaning “forever” or “permanence”, is often used to illustrate the 8 basic principles used to draw strokes that compose ideographic characters. This is a visualisation of the 8 principles used in writing Hanzi, Kanji, Kana, Hantu, and Hanja characters.
In addition to these eight common strokes in 永, there are at least two dozen strokes of combinations which enter in the composition of CJK strokes and by inclusion the CJK characters themselves. Most strokes are encoded in Unicode as symbols, to be used in ideographic description sequences (IDS). The standard characters names assigned in the ...