Stroke of Chinese characters
Stroke (bǐ huà) usually refers to points and lines of various shapes that make up Chinese characters, such as horizontal (1), vertical (2), left (3), point (3), fold (3) and so on. It is the smallest Lian Bi unit of Chinese characters.
There are eight basic strokes in traditional Chinese characters, namely, "point (个), horizontal (个), vertical (个), left (个), folded (个) and hooked (个).