Category: Chinese Words&Phrases

Each character has a written order, we call it stroke.Far from being complicated drawings, Chinese characters are made out of simple single strokes, all of them variations of only eight basic ones. All strokes have their own name and are written according to a few rules. It’s very important to learn to recognize them, since the number of strokes in a character is often the easiest way to find it in an index.but this will become clear after learning radicals and the use of dictionaries.