The basic strokes of writing are dot, horizontal, vertical, left, back, pick, fold and hook. Strokes (bǐ huà) usually refer to the dots and lines of various shapes that form Chinese characters and are uninterrupted, such as horizontal (一), vertical (丨), left (丿), Na (?), fold (?), etc., it It is the smallest connected unit that constitutes the Chinese character glyph.
Stroke sometimes also refers to the number of strokes. For example, there is a Chinese character stroke index in front of a calligraphy book. When expressing these two meanings, "stroke" can also be used as "stroke", but currently it is standardized as "stroke". In addition, strokes also refer to pictures drawn with pens. This meaning is generally used in ancient books, but is not commonly used or used by people nowadays.
Stroke classification
Chinese character fonts are divided into two types: written and printed.
Handwriting refers to the handwriting form of text. It is flexible and diverse and easy to express personal style. There are three main types of modern Chinese handwriting: regular script, cursive script, and running script. The pen shape of handwritten Chinese characters varies depending on the hard and soft pens used when writing. For example, when writing with a hard pen, the pen shape is vertical. When writing with a soft pen (such as a brush), it can also be divided into short vertical, long vertical, and hanging needle vertical. and vertical dew and other pen shapes.
Print style refers to the printing form of text. There are four main types of modern Chinese character printing styles: Song style, Song style, Kai style, and Hei type. Among them, Song style and Kai style are the most commonly used printing styles. Before the arrangement of Chinese character glyphs, the strokes and gestures of printed Song style and printed regular style were quite different. For example, the "ji" in printed regular style was "?" and "卽" in printed Song style.