A Quantitative Analysis of the Strokes on Chinese Characters of the Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education

Abstract

The Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education (Grading Standards for short) stipulates the classification of syllables, Chinese characters, vocabulary and grammar used in international Chinese education. Among them, there are 3000 Chinese characters in the Table of Chinese Characters, which are divided into three levels. The basic statistical analysis of their strokes can provide strong support and reliable basis for the stroke teaching of Chinese characters in international Chinese education. From the analysis of the number of strokes, the total number of strokes of the elementary, intermediate and advanced showed an increasing trend, the peak of the number of characters gradually moved back, and the average number of strokes increased. According to the statistics of stroke type distribution, the strokes with the highest frequency to the lowest frequency are horizontal, vertical, turning, dot and leftfalling , among which the cumulative frequency of horizontal and vertical accounts for about half of the total stroke shape. According to the statistics of structure ability, from high to low, they are horizontal, turning, vertical, leftfalling and dot. According to the distribution statistics of the position of each type of stroke in the character, the frequency use of horizontal and dot is more, leftfalling is relatively less, the vertical is less, and the turning is the least. The middle stroke has the prominent advantage of horizontal strokes, and other strokes are used in the order of turning, vertical and leftfalling, with the least use of dots. The order of the last stroke is dot, horizontal, vertical, turning and leftfalling. The dot strokes are used more than horizontal strokes, while leftfalling strokes are used least.