Learn Chinese and Chinese radicals Learn Chinese
For an on-line Chinese dictionary with stroke order animations, please visit our "free talking Chinese dictionary" page Basic strokes:
All Chinese characters builds up from basic strokes. The simplest ones have only one stroke while the more complex ones can have more than 20-30 strokes. To the left you can find some characters and the most common basic strokes in Chinese. The strokes are to be written in the right order and in the right way. It is important to follow those rules. If you always write a character the same way you will after a while have a "feeling" for how to write it. You will feel if you have missed a stroke or if something else is wrong. The character will also look much better if you follow the rules. Proportions are very important so you have to have it in mind when you write. Often a stroke can be altered to look "better" in a character. If you look at the top right corner you find a character with three "dian" on top. The two to the left are written from left to right while the last one is written from right to left. This is made to make the character more beautiful. The same if you have many "heng" in a character like in the second line, second character. There it is three "heng" and they are all in different sizes because it is more beautiful. To be able to write a Chinese character really beautiful you need a brush and ink. If you write with a pencil it is harder to make them look good. Since the proportions is so important it is a good idea to use a Chinese exercise paper when you write. It has small squares in which you write each character.
Stroke order
The strokes are to be written in a certain order. It is very few rules but it is well spend time to learn them since they make it easier to remember the character. Your character will also look better if you write them the right way. In China calligraphy is a higly regarded art form.
Middle is written before sides
From top to bottom.
From left to right
Horizontally strokes before vertically.
Finish what inside the box before you close it.
From outside to inside.
Top left corner first.
Boxes are written before strokes that cut through.
If more than two vertical strokes two is written and then the cutting stroke and finally the last vertical stroke.
Top left dot first, bottom right dot last.
Top right dot is written last
Chinese Radicals:
All Chinese characters have a radical or are a radial in it self. There are 214 radicals today but some of them are under debate to be removed. Look at the number 38 (
) to the left, it is the character for "woman". It is also the radical for many female things: 
= little sister, 
= mamma etc. Radicals is used to tell something about the meaning of the character, e.g. made of metal, is tall etc. It is also used to look up a character in a dictionary. To find a character you look for the radical in a radical list. When you have found your radical you count the remaining number of strokes in the character. With this information it is now possible to find the character.
Look at this character: 
It is the Chinese character that we want to look up. We know that the left part of the character is the radical. First we find this radical in the list. When we have done that we count the remaining number of strokes in the character. This character has only two strokes besides the radical. In the list we find that there are only 5 characters with this radical and two more strokes. It is easy to find out character now. We then find that we can read more about the character at page 216 in the dictionary. If we go to page 216 in the dictionary we will find that the character could mean subscribe etc.
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