Characters become less mysterious when learners can name their parts. This pack begins with a commonly taught beginner grouping of eight stroke families — 点, 横, 竖, 撇, 捺, 提, 折, and 钩 — then practices familiar characters and radical forms that contain those movements. The character 永 provides a compact review of several fundamental strokes. Use the worksheet's stroke-building option to study construction, then move to tracing and independent writing. Stroke classifications vary across teaching systems, so this is a practical starting set rather than the only possible taxonomy. Words on this worksheet: 点 (diǎn) — spot; 横 (héng) — harsh and unreasonable, perverse; 竖; 撇; 捺; 提 (tí) — carry; 折 (zhé) — fracture; 钩; 永; 人 (rén) — people; 口 (kǒu) — mouth; 女 (nǚ) — woman; 子 (zi) — noun suffix (table); 心 (xīn) — heart, feeling, centre, core; 手 (shǒu) — hand; 水 (shuǐ) — water; 火 (huǒ) — fire, anger, temper; 木; 日 (rì) — date; 月 (yuè) — month; 言; 食; 金 (jīn) — gold.
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