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Chinese & Japanese sentences use a Topic-Comment structure, where the Topic may be dropped (unspoken).
Written characters use this same structure. A given character can either have 1 component (the Comment), or 2 components (Comment with Topic).

Chinese "letters" make up the 2 components of Chinese characters. There are around 260 letters, and they come in 3 types: Signals, Shorts (the true "radicals"), and Longs.

A Topic is 1 Short letter (or rarely 2).
A Comment can be composed in 3 ways:

  1. Crown Comment: Signal letters (with a Short or Long).
  2. Stack Comment: Short letters (2 or more).
  3. Long Comment: Long letters (1 or more).

(Follow the rows of this table to guide you with stroke order)

. 2-Stroke 3-Stroke 4-Stroke 5-Stroke 6-Stroke 7-Stroke
. ||[臣]
心|㣺
. 冂|冖
皿 罒[网]
.
. . . . . . [歹]
. . . . . .
. . . . .
.
[臾]
. 口 品
. . . . . 兄 另
. . . . . 足|⻊ 呂 黾[黽]
.
申|电
. 日 月[肉]
貝 見
.
. . . . . . . . . . 尗 虍
. . . . . . 止|卜ㄥ
. . . . . . . . . . 步 齿[齒][鹵]
. [儿] 乃|廴
[丮]
[風]
.
.
. . . . . 爪|爫
. . . . . . 斤 戶
帛 鳥
. 自 舟|⺼一
. [人]
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[主]
. . . . . . [亍]
. |ク
. . . . .
象 兔 龟[龜]
.
. . . . .
角 鱼[魚]
.
. [竹]
攵 牛 午
.
.
[心]
火 父
. . . . .
.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 金 食 舍
.
[犬]
. . . . .
.
. [㔾]
[韋]|韦
. 刀 力
.
. . . . . 聿 艮
隶 帚
.
. [㔾]
.
[阜邑]
.
[艸]
廿
革 耳
.
[毛]
走 声
. . . . . .
.
. . . . . 奈 嗇
.
.
[龍]
. [丂]
[玉]
. . . . . 馬 臣 臤
.
[疋]
.
. . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . [西]
.
. . . . . 束 敕 車 更
.
. . . . .
.
. . . . .
.
. [夊]
[書]
. . . . . [麥]
.
. . . . .
.
[與]
. . . . .
.
. . . . . .
.
[手]
. . . . . .
. . . . .
. [八]
[義]
[爲]|為
. . . . .
. [入][冰]
广
[示]
[爿]
衣|衤
鹿
.
. . . . . 音 龍
. . . . . .
.
. . . . .
. . . . . . [水]
[豆]
. [言]
[辵]
. . . . .
. [刀]
.
[出]
.
[丮]
. [已]
[邑] [歹]
. . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . .

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