The combined character xié gōu begins with a xié stroke and adds the flourish of a gōu hook.

Here's a Chinese character that uses xié gōu and is simple to draw:

Before moving on, notice that the héng stroke here has a very slight upward slant. This is a common variation on the héng stroke. Look closely: In printed Chinese characters, a héng stroke (whether slanted or not) is of uniform width and includes a small upward dot at its right end. This distinguishes it from other characters that look similar.

Adding a piě stroke to the above character results in a new one:

As you can see, the small upward slant of the héng stroke in this character is slight compared with the much greater downward slant of the piě stroke.

While you may not use either of these two characters very often, the second one provides the basis for one of the most frequently used characters in Chinese:

This stroke is a great opportunity to practice both seeing and drawing a variety of subtleties that may confuse a beginner in writing Chinese. For starters, notice that the two piě strokes are drawn downward from right to left, as you can see because each is slightly thinner on the left side. In contrast, the tí stroke, drawn from left to right, is slightly thinner on the right side.

Although 我 is a common stroke, it's not simple. But you're quite ready to master it, and once you start using it in Chinese writing, it's a stroke that you'll use so frequently that it will become quite easy!

Here's another stroke that you might confuse with 我 if you’re not careful:

Notice here that in 找, the long héng stroke from 我 is broken into two separate shorter héng strokes.

For practice, I suggest drawing both 我 and 找 a few times, and you'll soon have little difficulty distinguishing the two characters.