Stroke Orders of the Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters () is a language standard jointly published by the Ministry of Education and the National Language Commission of China in November, 2020.
This new standard has replaced Standard stroke orders of commonly used characters in modern Chinese () as the current effective standard.
This standard stipulates the stroke orders for the 8,105 characters in the List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters. and can be used for Chinese character information processing, publishing and printing, reference book compilation, etc. It can also be used for teaching and research of Chinese characters.
The standard inherits the developmental criteria of the previous standards on stroke order, and carries on the rules of stroke order of the Standard stroke orders of commonly used characters in modern Chinese () and the Standard stroke orders of GB13000.1 Chinese character set (GB13000.1Ã¥ÂÂ符éÂÂæ±ÂÃ¥ÂÂç¬Â顺è§ÂèÂÂ).
In addition to following the rules of stroke order, the new standard makes comprehensive reference to the other relevant standards, such as Standard of GB13000.1 character set Chinese character order (stroke-based order) (GB13000.1Ã¥ÂÂ符éÂÂæ±ÂÃ¥ÂÂÃ¥ÂÂåºÂ(ç¬Âç»åºÂ)è§Âè ) and Standard of Chinese character bending strokes of the GB13000.1 character set (GB13000.1 Ã¥ÂÂ符éÂÂæ±ÂÃ¥ÂÂæÂÂç¬Âè§ÂèÂÂ). The stroke-based orders adopted is consistent with the previous relevant standards.
Based on application, in the range of modern standard Chinese characters, the standard stipulates stroke orders according to the forms of modern Chinese characters, after sufficient survey on the needs of retrieving, sorting, teaching and writing of modern Chinese characters.
Available on the Web at URL of "http://www.moe.gov.cn/jyb_sjzl/ziliao/A19/202103/W020210318300204215237.pdf", for a book of 575 pages in PDF format.