In addition to the few types of strokes, strokes can be divided into horizontal strokes and vertical strokes, which can be called vertical strokes and strokes can be divided into horizontal strokes and vertical strokes. There are many folding points, including transverse folding, skimming, transverse hook, folding hook, transverse folding hook, tongue pick, wind hook (transverse folding oblique hook), transverse bending (transverse bending), concave folding (transverse bending), nine hooks (transverse bending hook), B hook, ear hook, walking hook, construction hook, convex folding, easy hook and vertical hook. Each Chinese character has a certain number of strokes, such as "positive" 5 strokes and "negative" 1 1 stroke. Knowing the shape of strokes will help to count the number of strokes, which will help to guide writing and look it up in the dictionary.