笔画 Strokes
Strokes are the basic building blocks for characters and can be useful building blocks for Chinese fonts as well. The Unicode standard defines 36 different strokes but there are a number of systems to define different types strokes. The basic strokes for regular script in Yan style based on [Zhan Weixin 2007] are shown below.
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| 长横 Long Horizontal Stroke | 31d0 |
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| 短横 Short Horizontal Stroke | 31d0 |
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| 左尖横 Left Sharp Pointed Stroke | 31d0 |
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| 右尖横 Right Sharp Pointed Stroke | 31d0 |
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| 悬针 Hanging Vertical | 31d1 |
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| 垂露竖 Straight Vertical Stroke | 31d1 |
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| 方点（上点） Square Dot (Upper Dot) | 31d4 |
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| 圆点 Round Dot | 31d4 |
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| 出钩点 Dot with a Flick | 31d4 |
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| 左右点 Left and Right Dots | None |
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| 短撇 Short Downwards Left Curved Stroke | 31d2 |
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| 直撇 Straight Left Curved Stroke | 31d2 |
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| 曲撇（长撇） Downwards Left Curved Stroke | 31d3 |
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| 捺 Downwards-Right Concave Stroke | 31cf |
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| 曲捺（平捺） Flat Right Concave Stroke | 31dd |
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| 提 Up and Rightwards Flick | 31c0 |
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| 竖钩 Vertical Hooked Stroke | 31da |
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| 竖钩 Vertical Hooked Stroke | 31c1 |
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| 横折钩（右厥） Horizontal and Vertical Hook | 31c6 |
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| 横钩 Horizontal Hooked Stroke | 31d6 |
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| 横撇弯钩 Heng Pie Wan Gou | 71cc |
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| 横折折折钩 Heng Zhe Zhe Zhe Gou | 31e1 | ||
| 斜钩（狐钩） Hooked Arc | 31c2 |
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| 竖弯钩 Shu Wan Gou | 31df |
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| 卧钩 Flat Hook | 31c3 | ||
| 塌肩折 Turn with Flat Shoulder | 31d5 |
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| 耸肩折 Turn with Raised Shoulder | 31d5 |
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The SVG links in the table above linked in the Unicode column are suitable for importing glyphs into FontForge.
See CJK Strokes [Unicode Consortium 2009b] for a list of strokes and Unicode numbers. See Yan Zhen Qing: Yan Qin Ceremony Inscription [Zhan Weixin 2007] for more details on regular script strokes.