Writing Chinese 写中文

Learn All the Basics of Chinese Writing Part 1 - Strokes | How to Write Chinese Characters (Hanzi). https://youtu.be/ZemMzFxYIG4

There are six basic brush strokes in the writing of the Chinese characters. In addition, there are five additional simple brush strokes made from an extension of the brush. Let review these eleven basic strokes. # 1 is a dot or a 点 Diǎn. # 2 is a horizontal line called 恒 Héng. # 3 is a vertical stroke called 树 Shù. # 4 is a stroke that falls left from the top called 苤 Piě. # 5 is symmetrical to # 4, falling to the right from top to bottom called 那 Nà. # 6 is a stroke from bottom to top, slanting to the right called 提 Tí.

The next three strokes simply add a hook to the horizontal, vertical and slanting (top to bottom, slanting to the right) calling these 恒 勾 Héng Gōu, 树 勾 Shù Gōu, and 斜 勾 Xié Gōu. The last two strokes are a combination of horizontal and vertical strokes - first a horizontal followed by a vertical at the end of the horizontal both in one same stroke; and the second is the vertical followed by the horizontal both in one same stroke.

With these eleven strokes learnt, we can now combine these strokes t to form Chinese characters as in the examples given below.

The four main rules for writing Chinese characters are:

1. Horizontal strokes are written first before vertical ones.
2. Left-falling strokes are written before right-falling ones.
3. Strokes are written from top to bottom, and from left to right.
4. If there are characters that are framed (or boxed in), the top frame is written first but the bottom frame is written last.

We can now download the worksheets from the website below to practise more of the Chinese character writing: https://www.archchinese.com/help/chinese_word_worksheets_with_pictures.pdf