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For example, in Japan, 必 is written with the top dot first, while the traditional stroke order writes the 丿 first. In the characters 王 and 玉, the vertical stroke is the third stroke in Chinese, but the second stroke in Japanese. Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau use traditional characters, though with an altered stroke order.
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. There are three types of combinations between two strokes: [5] Separation: the strokes are separated from each other.
In the special cases of one-stroke characters, such as 一 and 乙, a stroke is a component and is a character. Chinese character component analysis is to divide or separate a character into components. There are two ways for Chinese character dividing, hierarchical dividing and plane dividing. Hierarchical dividing separate layer by layer from ...
The structure of a Chinese character is the pattern or rule in which the character is formed by its (first level) components. [4] The structures includes: [ 5 ] Single-component structure: The character is formed by a single primitive component, such as 口 , 日 and 月 .
The five basic strokes of heng (一), shu (丨), pie (丿), dian (丶), and zhe (𠃍) at the beginning of each group are called main stroke shapes; and the following strokes are called subordinate stroke shapes, or secondary strokes. The name of a category is the name of the main stroke.
In Japanese, Chinese characters are referred to as kanji. During the Nara period (710–794), readers and writers of kanbun —the Japanese term for Literary Chinese writing—began utilizing a system of reading techniques and annotations called kundoku. When reading, Japanese speakers would adapt the syntax and vocabulary of Literary Chinese ...
The structure of a Chinese character is the pattern or rule in which the character is formed by its (first level) components. [47] Chinese character structures include: Single-component structure (i.e., a non-decomposable character): The character is formed by a single primitive component, such as 口, 日 and 月.
Each stroke is written from left to right, starting with the uppermost stroke. The Chinese character meaning "person" (, Mandarin Chinese: rén, Cantonese Chinese: yàhn, Korean: in, Japanese: hito, nin; jin). The character has two strokes, the first shown here in dark, and the second in red.