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The teacher explains the different strokes a character is made up of, like "nǎi". Also see e.g. «Writing: Shu, the vertical stroke» and «Writing: Heng, the horizontal stroke».
This video (see at YouTube) is of beginner level difficulty. It has subtitles in Pinyin and Chinese characters.
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