How to Write Chinese: Stroke Count, Pt 2

Video Transcript

"From there on, you'll keep on counting. And pay attention here for this. If you don't lift your pen off the paper, that's considered a stroke. This hung ja is one stroke. So it doesn't count as two strokes. So that's one, two, three, four, five. So under that radical, there are many words listed. Like that. Like that. Like that. So, it's order in the number of stokes. That way in the index. So when looking down, you will eventually find the word. And the stroke count will help you to locate this word. So it's pretty simple, one dot is one stroke, another dot is another stroke; another dot is another stroke. So three, four, five, six. So you look for this with that counting. Six strokes counting. The attention should be paid to strokes like that. Sometimes, a complicated combination of strokes is still counting as one stroke like that. In this character, one, two, three, four, five, six. Instead of eight, it is six strokes. After you get more experienced, this wouldn't be a big problem. Let's work on learning the system together and get perfected day by day."