List of Tai Chi Chuan forms

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 |48 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)
 * 49 - Yang Demo/Family competition
 * 49 - Wu (Hao) short form
 * 50 - Li short form
 * 53 - Fu style advanced tai chi
 * 54 - Wu family competition
 * 56 - Chen Competition
 * 64 - Yang (Kuang Ping style)
 * 66 - Combined Standardized (Lost, original content unknown)
 * 67 - 67 movements Combined Tai-Chi Chuan form
 * 67 - Fu style tai chi lightning palm
 * 72 - Chen (New Form Cannon Fist)
 * 72 - Huang Sheng Shyan Form
 * 73 - Sun Competition
 * 74 - Chen (Old Frame, First Routine, Lao Jia Yi Lu)
 * 81 - Wu (Hao) Old Form
 * 83 - Chen New Form (Chen Village)
 * 88 - Yang Standardized (which appears to differ slightly from traditional forms of similar length)
 * 96 - Wu (Hao) long form
 * 97/98 - Sun Traditional Long
 * 103 - Yang long form (The moves can also add up to 85, 88, 108 or 150 depending on how they are counted.)
 * 105 - Fu style Tai Chi Ch'uan
 * 108 - Taoist Tai Chi form
 * 108 - Wu Chien-ch'uan style long
 * 119 - Wudang long
 * 120 - Tchoung_Ta-chen - Annotated Form
 * 140 - Li form
 * 229 - Tchoung_Ta-chen - Long Form

There are also many variations of qigong (ch'i kung) forms associated with different schools.

Weapon forms

 * 13 - Dong Yue (East Mountain) Combined Sword
 * 16 - Yang Standardized Sword
 * 16 - Yang/Combined Standardized Spear
 * 13 - Yang Broadsword (Dao)
 * 18 - Chen 'Health' Standardized Sword
 * 23 - Chen Sabre
 * 32 - Yang/Combined Sword
 * 36 - Chen Shi (Chen Style) Xinyi Hun Yuan broadsword
 * 48 - Chen Shi (Chen Style) Xinyi Hun Yuan sword
 * 49 - Chen Sword
 * 54 - Yang Sword
 * 56 - Fu style tai chi seven star sword