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Stroke count plays an important role in Chinese character sorting, teaching and computer information processing. [2] Stroke numbers vary dramatically from characters to characters, for example, characters 丶 , 一 and 乙 have only one stroke, while the character 齉 has 36 strokes, and 龘 (a composition of 龍 in triplicate) has 48.
Stroke number, or stroke count ( simplified Chinese: 笔画数; traditional Chinese: 筆畫數; pinyin: bǐhuà shù ), is the number of strokes of a Chinese character. It may also refer to the number of different strokes in a Chinese character set. Stroke number plays an important role in Chinese character sorting, teaching and computer ...
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.
In this order, Chinese characters are sorted by their stroke count ascendingly. A character with less strokes is put before those of more strokes. [6] For example, the different characters in "漢字筆劃, 汉字笔画 " (Chinese character strokes) are sorted into "汉(5)字(6)画(8)笔(10)[筆(12)畫(12)]漢(14)", where stroke counts are put in brackets.
Strokes can also be used for Chinese character sorting. The important stroke-based sorting methods include stroke-count sorting, stroke-count-stroke-order sorting, GB stroke-based sorting and YES sorting. Strokes combine with each other in a Chinese character in different ways. There are three types of stroke combinations between two strokes: [9]
The radicals are ordered first by stroke count (that is, the number of strokes required to write the radical); within a given stroke count, the radicals also have a prescribed order. [55] Every Chinese character falls (sometimes arbitrarily or incorrectly) under the heading of exactly one of these 214 radicals. [54]
The GB stroke-based order, full name GB13000.1 Character Set Chinese Character Order (Stroke-Based Order) (GB13000.1字符集汉字字序（笔画序）规范), is a standard released by the State Language Commission of China in 1999. [1] It is the current national standard for stroke-based sorting, and has been applied to the arrangement of ...
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.