Chinese character practice worksheet - Basic Stroke

Even in today’s electronic age, it is still important to learn proper stroke order for handwriting Chinese characters. First and most importantly, writing Chinese characters by hand is absolutely essential if you want to memorize them well. While you will often use a computer to type, this pinyin input method only requires you to be able to recognize the Chinese character; you don’t create the character from memory when typing on a computer. To learn Chinese characters for long-term retention, it is necessary to write them by hand and if you are going to write by hand then you should learn to write correctly.

There are six basic strokes of Chinese characters, horizontal stroke, vertical stroke, left-falling stroke, right-falling stroke, dot and rising stroke. Other types of strokes are derived from the strokes mentioned above, and thus known as the derived strokes.

* This material shows the basic strokes, the character, how to write it and its meaning. You can buy just one sheet, or a whole pack! Please check our shop for all the options.

* Traditional Chinese or simplified Chinese with pinyin practice.