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What do we call the different types of strokes of kanji/kana in Japanese?

For example, in Chinese the left-downward stroke is called 撇[piě] and the
right-downward stroke is called 捺[nà]. And if I wanted to describe what `八`
looks like, I would say (in Chinese) "一个撇, 一个捺".

Are the Japanese names for strokes commonly used? I would assume so since it's
a rather convenient way (for me at least) to describe what a Chinese character
looks like in the absence of any writing material to show it (alternatively I
could write in the air). Can I similarly describe kanji using Japanese names
for the strokes?
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kanji words kana
Names for strokes
These stroked are called 筆画, and as for kanji, it is traditionally said that
there are eight types of strokes (I copied the words from the webpage that I
linked below):

```

    1) 点 ([側]{ソク})  
    2) 横画 ([勒]{ロク})  
    3) 縦画 ([努]{ド})
    4) はね, かぎ ([趯]{テキ})  
    5) 左はらい ([掠]{リャク})
    6) 右はらい ([磔]{タク})
    
    7) 右上がりの横画 ([策]{サク})  
    8) 短い左はらい ([啄]{タク})  
    
```

And all those eight appear in the character `永`. [This web
page](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%B8%E5%AD%97%E5%85%AB%E6%B3%95)
provides a good explanation.

Modern treatment suggests a slightly different set of strokes. According to
[this web page](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AD%86%E7%94%BB), it replaces
7 and 8 above with the following two:

```

    9) かぎ  
    10) おれ 
    
```

I think this modern set is familiar among Japanese, but when they need to
refer to the kanji in the absense of a writing material, it is more common to
refer to the radical (部首) or to refer to a word that includes that character
(for example, `田んぼの「田」`).

There are probably no such notions for kana.
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