<Li> The list of Jōyō kanji for Japan . </Li> <Li> The Han - Han Dae Sajeon (de facto) for Korea . </Li> <P> In addition to strictness in character size and shape, Chinese characters are written with very precise rules . The most important rules regard the strokes employed, stroke placement, and stroke order . Just as each region that uses Chinese characters has standardized character forms, each also has standardized stroke orders, with each standard being different . Most characters can be written with just one correct stroke order, though some words also have many valid stroke orders, which may occasionally result in different stroke counts . Some characters are also written with different stroke orders due to character simplification . </P> <P> Chinese characters are primarily morphosyllabic, meaning that most Chinese morphemes are monosyllabic and are written with a single character, though in modern Chinese most words are disyllabic and dimorphemic, consisting of two syllables, each of which is a morpheme . In modern Chinese 10% of morphemes only occur as part of a given compound . However, a few morphemes are disyllabic, some of them dating back to Classical Chinese . Excluding foreign loan words, these are typically words for plants and small animals . They are usually written with a pair of phono - semantic compound characters sharing a common radical . Examples are 蝴蝶 húdié "butterfly" and 珊瑚 shānhú "coral". Note that the 蝴 hú of húdié and the 瑚 hú of shānhú have the same phonetic, 胡, but different radicals ("insect" and "jade", respectively). Neither exists as an independent morpheme except as a poetic abbreviation of the disyllabic word . </P>

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