Stroke (bǐhuà) usually refers to various shapes of points and lines that make up Chinese characters, such as horizontal (1), vertical (2), left (3), left (3), right (_) and folding (
When expressing these two meanings, "strokes" can also be used as "strokes", but now it is standardized as "strokes". In addition, strokes also refer to pictures with pen-and-ink strokes. This meaning is generally used in ancient books, but it is not commonly used or used now. There are eight basic strokes in traditional Chinese characters, namely "dot (throw), horizontal (throw), vertical (throw), left (throw), si (_) and fold (
196565438+1On October 30th, the People's Republic of China (PRC), the Ministry of Culture, the China Language Reform Commission, the State Language Commission, and the press and publication departments of People's Republic of China (PRC) and China published the Modern Chinese Characters Table 1988, which stipulated five basic strokes: horizontal, vertical, left and right.