The piě stroke is often combined with the shù stroke to create the shù piě stroke, a hybrid of the vertical shù stroke and the leftward-curved piě stroke.

Here's a simple character in Chinese that uses the shù piě stroke:

Adding a piě stroke to the top of this character results in a new one:

Here's another common character that also uses the shù piě stroke:

And here's another that's only slightly more complicated:

In this stroke, the same stroke order is used in a slightly different way to produce a different character: