Chinese character forms

[1] Modern Chinese characters appear in the form of square blocks.

Source tracing analysis is also called the method of character creation (造字法).

It takes the form of a character when it was created as the object of analysis.

As an academic subject, modern Chinese characters pay more attention to current status analysis.

Plane dividing separate out the primitive components at one time.

Hierarchical dividing can display the external structure of Chinese characters, while plane splitting can be regarded as omitting the higher splitting levels, and directly writing out the final separating result of primitive components.

For example, component 咅 in character 陪, 部 and 菩.

It lies at the final level of the stroke-component-character Chinese character composition.

[18] According to first-level component combination, the structures of decomposable characters can be divided into 13 categories:[19][20] According to primitive component combination, the structures of decomposable characters can be divided into:[21] The popular fonts of modern Chinese characters include Song or Ming (宋體, 明體; 宋体, 明体), FangSong (仿宋體, 仿宋体), Kai (regular, 楷體, 楷体), Li (clerical, 隸體, 隶体), Hei (black, sans-serif, 黑體, 黑体) and Wei (魏體, 魏体).

For example, the Simplified Chinese version of MS Word allows setting font sizes by points or by numbers.