Stroke usually refers to the uninterrupted points and lines in various shapes, such as horizontal (1), vertical (2), left (3), point (3) and fold (3), which constitute Chinese characters, and is the smallest Lian Bi unit.
Stroke sometimes refers to the number of strokes, such as the Chinese character stroke index in front of the word book, which can also be used as "stroke" when expressing these two meanings, but it has been standardized as "stroke" now. In addition, strokes also refer to paintings with pen-and-ink strokes. This meaning is generally used in ancient books, but it is not commonly used or used now.
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The fonts of Chinese characters are divided into handwriting and printing. Handwriting refers to the handwritten form of characters, which is flexible and easy to express personal style. There are three kinds of calligraphy in modern China: regular script, cursive script and running script.
The strokes of handwritten Chinese characters are different due to the use of hard pen and soft pen, such as hard pen vertical strokes, and soft pen (such as writing brush) vertical strokes include short vertical strokes, long vertical strokes, hanging needle strokes and vertical strokes.
Printing refers to the printing form of characters. There are four types of modern Chinese characters: Songti, Kaiti and Bold, among which Songti and Kaiti are the most commonly used.