The next stroke, tí, means "rise." As you can see, the tí stroke is drawn up and to the right:

Look closely here and you'll see that in printing, the tí stroke thins out and comes to a point on its right side. This feature is in contrast to the piě stroke, which you learned to draw in the previous chapter, which comes to a point on its left side. These subtle distinctions derive from Chinese calligraphy, and continue to be observed in printed Chinese, adding to the beauty of both forms. However, as long as you observe the proper direction of the stroke, you can safely ignore the fine points of stroke width when you write Chinese with a pen in your daily life.

Here's another common character that includes a tí stroke:

The héng + shù gōu + tí combination on the left side of this character appears in a variety of other Chinese characters. In this case, it's combined with the character丁 that you learned earlier in this chapter.

Here's another character that uses the tí stroke:

As in the previous example, this character combines a character you already know – 舌 – with a combination that appears on the left side of a variety of Chinese characters: diǎn + diǎn + tí.