Commons:Stroke Order Project/Kangxi radicals

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Stroke Order Project

The 214 radicals of the Kangxi dictionary, following Template:Hanzigallery.

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.

[edit] Progress pages

• /1-99
• /100-174
• /175-214

[edit] Useful project sub-pages

• Commons:Stroke Order Project/Sources ;
• Stroke order: User:Yug/Stroke order2 (3/4) - User:Yug/Stroke order according to national rules (1/3) - en:CJK strokes (3/4).

[edit] Key

Table of simple strokes Name (Char, pinyin) Stroke   Translation of Chinese name Additional description Basic strokes (See also unicode.org) 点 diǎn D 丶 "Dot" Tiny dash 横 hēng 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

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.

• ✓ means the stroke order and the way of writing the character have been checked and approved.

[edit] Naming and Other Notes

Type	Old convention	New convention	Example ***
Images showing stroke order
楷书 kǎishū Row of grey chars	中-bw.png	中-bw.svg*
楷书 kǎishū Graduated from black to red	中-red.png	中-red.svg *
楷书 kǎishū Animated calligraphy	中-order.gif	中-order.gif **
楷书 kǎishū Animated by Stroke	中-sbs.gif	中-sbs.gif **
Images showing ancient characters
隶书 lìshū	none (font avalable)	中-clerical.svg
（小）篆文 (xiǎo)zhuànwén	中-seal.gif	中-seal.svg
（大）篆文 (dà)zhuànwén	中-bigseal.gif	中-bigseal.svg
金文 jīnwén	中-bronze.gif	中-bronze.svg
甲骨文 jiǎgǔwén	中-oracle.gif	中-oracle.svg
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>