Stroke #12 – shù tí:
(Characters 87-91)
The stroke shù tí combines two basic strokes: a vertical shù stroke followed by an upward diagonal tí stroke.
Adding the shù tí stroke to your repertoire allows you to draw this character, which appears in a variety of multiple-character words:
Character | Mandarin Pronunciation | Meaning in English |
以 | yǐ | by mean of, according to |
Stroke Order (4): shù tí + diǎn + shù piě + diǎn |
And here's an everyday word that includes shù tí:
Character | Mandarin Pronunciation | Meaning in English |
衣 | yī | clothes |
Stroke Order (6): diǎn + héng + piě + shù tí + piě + nà |
Note that 以 and 衣 aren't homophones in Mandarin because their tones are different.
The next character is a little complicated, but it includes a left-side and right side component:
Character | Mandarin Pronunciation | Meaning in English |
钟 | zhōng | o'clock |
Stroke Order (9): piě + héng + héng + héng + shù tí +shù + héng zhé + héng +shù |
Before moving on, notice that the right side of this character is simply 中 (meaning "center," pronounced zhōng in Mandarin).
The next character includes the same component on the left side as the previous character:
Character | Mandarin Pronunciation | Meaning in English |
错 | cuò | mistake |
Stroke Order (13): piě + héng + héng + héng + shù tí + héng + shù + shù + héng + shù + héng zhé + héng + héng |
This left-side component is a simplified form of the character 金 (meaning "gold," pronounced jīn in Mandarin). It appears in this form on the left side of a variety of Chinese characters.
To finish up, here’s a character you’ll commonly use in China when asking a person their name:
Character | Mandarin Pronunciation | Meaning in English |
叫 | jiào | to call, to be called |
Stroke Order (5): shù + héng zhé + héng + shù tí +shù |