What is the rule of stroke order?

The stroke order rules of Chinese characters are:

1, first horizontal and then vertical (such as "dry"),

2, first skimming and then pressing (such as "eight"),

3. From top to bottom (such as "main"),

4. From left to right (such as "forest"),

5. Advanced customs clearance (such as "Tian"),

6, first in the middle and then on both sides (such as "water"),

7. From the outside to the inside (such as "back"). For example, "War".

Extended data:

Stroke classification:

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. For example, vertical strokes written with hard pen can be divided into short vertical strokes, long vertical strokes, hanging needle strokes and hanging vertical strokes when written with soft pen.

Printing refers to the printing form of characters. There are four types of modern Chinese characters: Song Style, Imitation Song Style, Regular Style and Black Style, among which Song Style and Regular Style are the most commonly used. Before the arrangement of Chinese characters, there were great differences between the strokes and gestures of printed Song style and printed regular script, such as "i.e." and "? Namely "two glyphs".

In order to make the typeface of printed Song typeface as consistent as possible with that of printed regular script, and to make the typeface of printed Song typeface close to that of printed regular script in principle, People's Republic of China (PRC), Ministry of Culture and China Language Reform Commission issued the List of Printed General Chinese Characters on June 30th, 1965+65438, which standardized the fonts of printed general Chinese characters.

Generally speaking, strokes are based on the mainstream fonts in printed form, and there are generally two classification methods of modern Chinese strokes: one is a rough classification method, which divides strokes into eight or five categories (miscellaneous words method); Detailed classification divides strokes into basic strokes and derived strokes (compound strokes).