Strokes[edit]Main article: Stroke (CJK character)Character components can be further subdivided into strokes. The strokes of Chinese characters fall into eight main categories: horizontal (一), vertical (丨), left-falling (丿), right-falling (丶), rising (lower element of 冫), dot (、), hook (亅), and turning (乛, 乚, 乙, etc.).[21]There are eight basic rules of stroke order in writing a Chinese character:Horizontal strokes are written before vertical ones.Left-falling strokes are written before right-fal