Character Fundamentals: Strokes and Simple Pictographs

Identify and write the basic strokes of Chinese characters (e.g., héng, shù, piě, nà, diǎn).

Apply standard stroke order rules (e.g., top-to-bottom, left-to-right, outside-before-inside).

Explain the concept of radicals as semantic or phonetic components.

Recognize and write pictographic characters for nature: 日, 月, 山, 水, 木, 火.

Recognize and write pictographic characters for people: 人, 女, 口, 手.