The Chinese language has become increasingly popular all over the world. There are hundreds of Universities abroad offering Oriental studies degrees. And perhaps thousands of Chinese language courses all over the world. Most try to teach you how to speak Chinese and how to read Chinese characters. But when it comes to writing Chinese characters, most courses shy away from that. The reason is simple. It takes a lot of will and time to be able to master Chinese Characters.
Any Chinese language learners has every right to be irritated, since writing good-looking Chinese characters is a painstaking job even for the native Chinese people. They attend primary school where the teachers leave loads of homework on writing practise. Poor kids are usually required to write a single word 20 times a day, or even more. After years of training, their handwriting seems no better than before. Even until now some would sometimes forget which stroke they should use to complete one character. As it is found in any language, a trivial mistake in writing can contribute to a huge difference in meaning. It is the same when writing Chinese characters.
Many foreign-learners are not so happy with the strict rules in the Chinese language, such as the four various tones, the measure words to name but a few, yet in fact, to get to know the basic strokes in Chinese characters is no easier than the others . There are eight kinds of strokes in Chinese calligraphy and there are around 20 kinds of strokes that are extended based on those 8 very basic ones .To dig deeper into the rest kinds of the strokes means mastering the 8 basic ones. Take a closer look at the table below:
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