There are eight basic strokes of Chinese characters, including dot (丶), horizontal (一), vertical (丨), left (丿), Na (?), raised?, folded?, and hooked.

Stroke is the smallest unit of Chinese characters. Strokes can be divided into two categories: basic strokes and compound strokes. In daily use, it generally refers to the strokes of regular script writing and printed glyphs (such as Ming style).

Usual classification:

Strokes are the smallest connected units that constitute Chinese character glyphs. According to the GB13000.1 character set of Chinese characters issued by the Ministry of Education and the Language Commission on December 19, 2001, strokes are folded The standard for printing regular Chinese characters in the specification usually divides the strokes of Chinese characters into 32 types. This classification does not include "〇, ?, 乁, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?" and Korean Chinese characters and Japanese Chinese characters.

Includes:

Six basic strokes (dot (丶), horizontal (one), vertical (丨), left (丿), Na (?), and raised (?)) That is, flat pen) and horizontal fold?, horizontal fold?, フ, horizontal hook (乛), horizontal fold hook (?,?), horizontal fold lift (?), horizontal fold bend (?), horizontal fold fold?, horizontal fold Oblique hook?, Horizontal bending hook?.

Horizontal hook (?), horizontal fold and fold (?), horizontal fold and fold hook (?), horizontal fold and fold (?), vertical lift (?), vertical fold?, Vertical hook, vertical hook (?), vertical hook (乚).

When writing, the direction of the strokes that does not change from beginning to end is called a basic stroke (that is, a flat stroke), and the direction of the stroke that changes is called a derived stroke (a compound stroke, that is, a folded stroke).

There are eight basic strokes of traditional Chinese characters, namely "dot (丶), horizontal (一), vertical (丨), left (丿), 捺 (乀), fold 乛, bend, hook 亅, also known as the "Eight Methods of Yongzi"

The "Printing Common Chinese Character Form Table" issued by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Character Reform Commission on January 30, 1965 and the National Language in March 1988. The "Modern Chinese Common Character List" issued by the Chinese Character Work Committee, the People's Republic of China and the State Press and Publication Administration stipulates five categories of basic strokes: horizontal, vertical, apostrophe, dot, and fold.