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Mr. Davis's Eugraphia Sinensis
All characters are composed of the six following kinds of strokes, or lines,[1] viz:—
| Hung | .................. | Horizontal. |
| Shoo | .................. | Perpendicular. |
| Peč | .................. | Left oblique. |
| Nà | .................. | Right oblique. |
| Kow | .................. | Hooked, or bent. |
| Teen | .................. | A point, or dot. |
THE NINETY-TWO RULES FOR WRITING THE CHINESE CHARACTERS WITH CORRECTNESS.[2]
- 1. The upper part should cover in what is below.
- 2. The horizontal stroke below should be rather extended, as a foundation for what is above.
- 3. In these, the left-hand portion should be elevated, and the right depressed.
- 4. In these, the left-hand portion should be small, the right full and extended.
- 5. In these, which are compared with something carried on a pole, the horizontal stroke in the middle should be long.
- 6. Let the perpendicular, in these, be drawn down perfectly straight through the middle.
- 7. The 20th of the 214 Chinese keys, or radicals, should not be much deflected nor short, in these.
- 8. Let the 20th radical in these be neither too upright nor too long.
- 9. The horizontal line in these must be short, the oblique long.
- 10. The horizontal lines must be long, the oblique short.
- 11. The horizontal strokes short, the perpendicular long, and the oblique at full length.
- 12. The horizontal lines in the 75th radical, at the lower part of these characters, must be long, the perpendicular short, and the two oblique contracted into points.
