Dot vs. slash in Chinese computer fonts We have been working with a new character system that differentiates between a dot and a slash in Chinese characters.

The issue I have is being able to instinctively tell which one I should use. When I asked the creators of the system they said it is because it is related to the rules of Chinese calligraphy.

For example, on the character 下 the third stroke looks like a slash down and to the right, but it is actually a dot when handwritten.

Is there a Chinese computer font that shows the difference between the dot and slash more clearly? I had heard that there was one that was considered more standard, but I haven't been able to find it...
Before simply answering &quot;there is such a font&quot;, I would like to seriously suggest you should not differentiate a dot and a slash. The reasons are:


Many Chinese people don't distinguish them when writing, even calligraphers. We care about &quot;fast&quot; and &quot;beautiful&quot;.

The standard glyphs among mainland, Taiwan/Hong Kong, Japan and Korea, are usually different, you can't tell which one is the most authoritative.



If anyway you need a computer font to do such analyses, check


標楷體 and 國字標準字體 for traditional Chinese. This font (edukai-3.ttf, title: TW-MOE-Std-Kai) can be downloaded from the website of Ministry Of Education of Taiwan.

微软简楷体 for simplified Chinese. This font (simkai.ttf, title: 楷体. Offered by ZHONGYI Electronic Co., Beijing) is the default Kai font in MS Windows for simplified Chinese. Note that though it is named &quot;simplified Kai&quot;, it includes traditional characters.



In the examples of the wiki page 國字標準字體, the first column is &quot;standard&quot; and the second is &quot;conventional&quot; (both should be considered correct):

Some distinction of a dot and a slash is highlighted (維, 內, 集, 遨, 說, 眾). Yes, I should also mention even in Taiwan many scholars criticize this standard, &quot;sometimes it departs from convention too much&quot;. And I've never ever seen any native speaker strictly follows such a standard when they are writing.
Other minor differences can be also found, see the comparison (微, 標):

I guess you can figure it out :) So, I'm afraid it's better not to differentiate a dot and a slash in a &quot;character system&quot;.