NB: The stroke order of each and every radical will be individually checked in several books before we approve them by marking them with a little tick (✓). If there is the slightest doubt, the radical will not be approved.
Thus, our work should be 98–99% dependable, whilst many people's minds (and even many books) contain a hodgepodge of information from ROC, PRC, and Japanese standards. Most books fail to deal with these issues because most of them are made in and aimed at a single region, and/or rely on the authors' personal practice regarding stroke order.
Here, we do better than them.
Progress pages [edit]
Visualisation [edit]
- Historical styles
- Stroke order
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| See also: List of Kangxi radicals |
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| See also: List of Kangxi radicals |
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Useful project sub-pages [edit]
Table of simple strokes
Name
(Char, pinyin) |
Stroke
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Translation
of Chinese name |
Additional
description |
| Basic strokes (See also unicode.org) |
| 点 diǎn |
D |
丶 |
"Dot" |
Tiny dash |
| 横 héng |
H |
一 |
"Horizontal" |
Rightward stroke |
| 竖 shù |
S |
丨 |
"Vertical" |
Downward stroke |
| 提 tí |
T |
㇀ |
"Rise" |
Flick up and rightwards |
| 捺 nà |
N |
乀 |
"Press down" |
Falling rightwards (fattening at the bottom) |
| 撇 piě |
P |
ノ |
"Throw away" |
Falling leftwards (with slight curve) |
| Combining strokes |
| 折 zhé |
Z |
n/ㄱ㇄ |
"Break" |
Usually 90° turn |
| 钩 gōu |
G |
亅 乚 |
"Hook" |
Appended to other strokes |
| 弯 wān |
W |
n/a |
"Bend" |
Usually concave on the left |
| 斜 xié |
X |
n/a |
"Slant" |
Usually concave on the right |
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Using these "basic strokes", we can build complex strokes, such as: 乚 = shùwāngóu => SWG
Then, using "-", we can explain one caracter, such as: 九 => piě-hēngzhéwāngōu => P-HZWG.
Naming and Other Notes [edit]
| Type |
Old convention |
New convention |
Example *** |
| Images showing stroke order |
| 楷书 kǎishū Row of grey chars |
中-bw.png |
中-bw.svg* |
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| 楷书 kǎishū Graduated from black to red |
中-red.png |
中-red.svg * |
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| 楷书 kǎishū Animated calligraphy |
中-order.gif |
中-order.gif ** |
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| 楷书 kǎishū Animated by Stroke |
中-sbs.gif |
中-sbs.gif ** |
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| Images showing ancient characters |
| 隶书 lìshū |
none (font avalable) |
中-clerical.svg |
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| （小）篆文 (xiǎo)zhuànwén |
中-seal.gif |
中-seal.svg |
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| （大）篆文 (dà)zhuànwén |
中-bigseal.gif |
中-bigseal.svg |
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| 金文 jīnwén |
中-bronze.gif |
中-bronze.svg |
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| 甲骨文 jiǎgǔwén |
中-oracle.gif |
中-oracle.svg |
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Do not use “m”, “t”, or “j” freely in file name. We use them such : "m" for "modern", "t" for "traditional", "j" for Japanese, etc. <ed>
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