The strokes of Chinese Characters part 1

The following are the first six strokes, the fundamental ones:

	heng	horizontal stroke (written from left to right)	as in the character yi (one)
	shu	vertical stroke (written from top to bottom)	as in the character shi (ten)
	pie	down stroke to the left (written from top right to bottom left)	as in the character ba (eight)
	na	down stroke to the right (written from top left to bottom right)	as in the character ru (to enter)
	dian	dot (written from top to bottom right or left)	as in the character liu (six)
	ti	upward stroke (written from bottom left to top right)	as in the character ba (to grasp)

Ref: http://www.clearchinese.com/chinese-writing/strokes.htm