List of Tai Chi Chuan forms, postures, movements, or positions in order of number of forms:
Hand forms:
4 - Chen 4 Step is a subset of Chen
Old Frame One (Grandmaster Zhu Tian Cai)
8 - Yang Standardized
8 - Chen Standardized
9 - Chen Old Frame (Master Liu Yong)
10 - Yang
12 - Yang
13 - Chen (aka Five Element Chen)
subset of either Old Frame One or Small
Frame (Grandmaster Zhu Tian Cai)
13 - Dong Yue (East Mountain) Combined
16 - Yang Standardized
16 - Chen Standardized
16 - Actually Chen 4 Step (see above)
popularly repeated in four directions of
the compass (Grandmaster Zhu Tian Cai)
18 - Chen (Grandmaster Chen Zheng Lei)
19 - Chen (Grandmaster Chen Xiao Wang)
24 - Yang ('Simplified', 'Beijing',
'New Style') Standardized
24 - Chen Shi (Chen style) Xinyi
Hunyuan Taijiquan (24 Form by
Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang)
32 - Combined Form
32 - Chen Standardized
"Fist" (New Frame)
34 - Wudang short
35 - Sun Standardized Short
36 - Chen Standardized (New Frame)
36 - Fu style short form tai chi
ch'uan
37 - Yang (Zheng, Cheng Man-ch'ing)
Short
38 - Chen (Grandmaster Chen Xiao Wang)
39 - Chen (Old frame 39)
39 - Chen (New frame 39)
40 - Yang competition
40 - Sun Family Modern Short Form
42 - Chen (Old form cannon fist)
42 - Combined Style Competition Form
42 - Sun Traditional Short
43 - Yang (Jiang Yu Kun)
46 - Yang Competition
46 - Wu competition
48 - Combined forms (This form,
established in 1976, combined techniques
from Chen, Yang, Wu, and Sun forms, and
was used as a Competition Form until it
was replaced by the 42 Form Competition
Form.)
48 - Chen Shi (Chen style) Xinyi
Hunyuan Taijiquan (48 Form by
Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang)
