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Questions tagged [handwriting]

Questions about writing Chinese characters by hand.

This tag is for questions about writing/drawing Chinese characters by hand, including:

  • stroke order
  • orthography (how to correctly draw strokes)
  • arrangement of character components and proportions
  • cursive writing (brush calligraphy)
  • tips and techniques for improving your handwriting
  • tips and techniques for teaching handwriting and calligraphy

If you have questions about how to recognize handwritten characters, please use the tag .

For questions about the written (书面) language and prose, please use the tag .

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What is the suggested pattern on paper to learn handwriting?

What is the suggested pattern on paper to learn handwriting? On the web, I've found many kind of paper, such as those named 九宫格 jiǔgōnggé, 米字格 mǐzìgé, 田字格 tiánzìgé, etc. I've got a book of chinese characters in which some characters are displayed on…
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When handwriting 黄 (huáng; yellow) is it incorrect to have a disconnected 草 (cǎo; grass) radical on top?

Question: When handwriting 黄 (huáng; yellow) is it incorrect to have a disconnected 草 (cǎo; grass) radical on top? Specifically, this is what I have in mind: Is the one on the left in the above image incorrect?
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Is it legitimate to write 男 merging the two vertical strokes?

Wiktionary gives the stroke order for 男 as: I'm wondering if it's wrong to merge the two vertical strokes like this: Question: Is it legitimate to write 男 merging the two vertical strokes?
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Does a similar system to a pangram exist for handwriting practice

Question Does Chinese have sets of phrases that cover both basic and complex strokes that are memorizable? Situation Within Alphabetic based languages we would be able to practice handwriting using a pangram Examples: Victor jagt zwölf Boxkämpfer…
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Decipher particular short cursive inscription (is it really 习近平's signature?)

During his visit in the Czech Republic, the president of PRC Xi Jinping (习近平) has made a record in the castle of Lany guestbook. Its photo was posted publicly. The second line 二〇一六年三月廿八日 is obviously the date 2016-03-28, but what are the main three…
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How do Chinese people correct their characters?

While practicing writing of simple sentences, I realized that after missing I stroke, I was tempted to fix it the same way I'd do it in English - by thickening the strokes I'd like to keep. I know that Chinese people have a "shorthand" way of making…
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When writing, do chinese people rotate the page to write more easily?

I was taught to write in school (USA) by rotating the page about 15-30 degrees to get a more natural stroke. I actually find it difficult to write with the page completely square to my body. I've been practicing Chinese characters off and on for…
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Handwriting 行書 semi-cursive online

Hi is there any website where we can input a chinese character and watch how it is written (the process) in 行書 semi-cursive form, and not how it is written in the normal "formal" stroke. In order to know exactly how it is handwritten in…
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What types of non-fountain pens or pencils (not brushes) are recommended for writing Chinese characters?

Making the flourishes and thick ends and tapering ends to strokes is not possible using a normal ballpoint pen, other than frightfully crudely. And for some reason I have never got on well with fountain pens. A brush is capable of producing fine…
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How do I handwrite 小心翼翼 well?

My handwriting (of 他小心翼翼地把邮票揭下来): The 小心翼翼 looks horribly imbalanced: there's two sparse characters 小心 followed by two dense characters 翼翼. I'm wondering what I can do to make it look better. Question: How do I handwrite 小心翼翼 well? Note: I'm not…
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Why does my handwritten 尽 look so ugly?

Every time I write 尽 I feel very unsatisfied. Today's example: Something about it feel odd or wrong, and I don't know what. I feel it's ugly. Question: Why does my handwritten 尽 look so ugly?
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How many 行书 semi-cursive handwriting variants

In common mandarin chinese, How i wanted to know how many "known" 行书 semi-cursive handwriting variants are they? I also wanted to ask two questions (the answer could be different although these two questions "seems" to appear the same) : 1) Which of…
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Do characters like 司, 习, and 可 have different first strokes?

I'm interested in the first stroke of characters like 司, 习, and 可. This is how it looks on my computer (but I don't know if this is a matter of fonts): 可 starts off with a single horizontal stroke, whereas 司 and 习 do not (it starts off horizontal,…
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Are my chinese characters readable?

I am trying to write a cute card for my Chinese girlfriend. But I speak no Chinese. Can you read what I wrote below? Is my handwriting OK?
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Is this Chinese and which character is written here if yes?

Background story: small office with ~20 people, a pretty girl saying in office chat room: "Hey, something strange. Someone put a small amount of money and this piece of paper with text in a pocket of my jacket. If someone do it by mistake or maybe…
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