The study and classification of strokes is used for:
1. understanding Chinese character calligraphy – the correct method of writing, shape formation and stroke order required for character legibility; See more

When writing Han radicals, a single stroke includes all the motions necessary to produce a given part of a character before lifting the writing instrument from the writing surface; … See more

CJK strokes are an attempt to identify and classify all single-stroke components that can be used to write Han radicals. There are some thirty distinct types of strokes recognized in Chinese characters, some of which are compound strokes made from basic strokes. The … See more

Organization systems used to describe and differentiate strokes may include the use of roman letters, Chinese characters, numbers, or a combination of these devices. Two methods of organizing CJK strokes are by:
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Stroke number or stroke count is the number of strokes making up a character. Stroke count plays an important role in Chinese character sorting, teaching and computer information processing. Stroke numbers vary dramatically from characters to characters, for … See more

Stroke forms (笔形; 筆形; bǐxíng) are the shapes of strokes. Different classification schemes have different numbers of categories by which one may classify individual strokes.
Two categories
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The term stroke order can refer to one of two concepts:
• The direction in which a stroke is written—for example, the heng (㇐; 'horizontal') stroke is made horizontally from left to right, while the shu (㇑; 'vertical') stroke is … See more