Stroke order

For other uses, see Stroke order (disambiguation).

Stroke order for character 筆 shown by shade going from black to red

Stroke order for each component (川 and 頁) of the character 順 shown by shade going from black to red

Stroke order
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	筆順
Simplified Chinese	笔顺
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin bǐshùn Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization bāt seuhn Jyutping bat1 seon6
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabet	bút thuận
Hán-Nôm	筆順
Korean name
Hangul	필순; 획순
Hanja	筆順; 劃順
Transcriptions Revised Romanization pilsun; hoeksun McCune–Reischauer p'ilsun; hoeksun
Japanese name
Kanji	筆順; 書き順
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn hitsujun; kaki-jun

Stroke order is the order in which the strokes of a Chinese character are written. A stroke is a movement of a writing instrument on a writing surface.