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漢字的結構
Composition of Chinese Characters

Unlike Roman, Chinese is constituted with essential draws, not by alphabet. The draws in a simple sense have five styles, that is,
1. Level「we draw it on the paper evenly and levelly, like 一,　or －, or ──, which is contained in the Chinese words/characters such as 王, 三, 大, 玉, 國, nearly every words. 」
2. Straight「we draw it on the paper as “L” in alphabet, like 亅, or 丨, which is contained in the Chinese such as 小,　米, 樹,　傑, 劉, 木, 中, nearly in every words.」
3. Start Dash「we draw it on the paper as “/” in the keyboard, like　／, or 丿, which is contained in the Chinese such as 全, 人, 和, 金, 大, nearly every words.」
4. End Dash「we draw it on the paper as “\” in the keyboard, like ＼, or 乀, which is contained in the Chinese such as 人, 全, 金, 合, nearly every words.」
5. Turn「we draw it on the paper as capital “E”, “M”, or “N”, “Z”, just to make a turn of pen-writing, to differentiating with the former 4 draws, which are made in only one style or position, but the Turn is made by a change of direction of drawing movements. Let me show you: 口, 尸, 己, 山, 間,　nearly in every words.」

Please note that in Chinese there is also another important draw, Point, which can be classified in Start Dash or End Dash, is specially omitted for simplicity. To draw a point on the paper, it’s easy for you to mimic the point in any sense, like ‘　,　.　`　in the keyboard, for your reference, I give some Chinese words containing such a special draw:
米, 金, 國, 然, 守, 議, nearly in half of Chinese words.