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The Simple Four-Stroke Traditional Chinese Character Meaning Heart

2 min readMay 21, 2026

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Last time we went through the strokes of the Traditional Chinese character meaning hand, 手.

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The Traditional Chinese character meaning heart in the night sky of a forest with a comet in the background
The Traditional Chinese character meaning heart

This time, we are looking at a fairly simple character with 4 strokes again. However, these strokes are quite different from what we talked about before.

It is the Traditional Chinese Character meaning heart, 心.

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Let’s jump on to it now.

First stroke

The first stroke is a left dot, which is a dot slanting slightly to the left. It looks like:

a left slanting dot
First Stroke

Second stroke

The second stroke is little bit more complicated. It is a right-falling stroke ending with a hook. The stroke starts from the left and ends on the right then goes up and end like a hook.

First and second strokes of the Traditional Chinese character meaning heart
Second stroke

Third stroke

The third stroke is yet again a dot but it slants to the right.

Third stroke

Fourth stroke

The fourth and last stroke is essentially the same as the third stroke.

The Traditional Chinese character meaning heart
Fourth sroke

So, here is the Traditional Chinese Character meaning heart, 心.

It is easy to follow although the strokes are of different types.

Keep practicing before the next post comes shortly.

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