Comments on: Do you have to learn to write Chinese characters by hand? https://www.hackingchinese.com/is-it-necessary-to-learn-to-write-chinese-characters-by-hand/ A better way of learning Mandarin Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:09:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Is it necessary to learn the stroke order of Chinese characters? – JACOB'S WIKI https://www.hackingchinese.com/is-it-necessary-to-learn-to-write-chinese-characters-by-hand/#comment-146738 Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:09:02 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=2093#comment-146738 […] Do you have to learn to write Chinese characters by hand? […]

]]> By: Remember how to write Chinese characters with less effort | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/is-it-necessary-to-learn-to-write-chinese-characters-by-hand/#comment-142283 Mon, 27 Oct 2025 10:12:32 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=2093#comment-142283 […] I still recommend that you learn to write some characters to strengthen your understanding of how the writing system works, but there is no strong practical need to learn to write thousands of characters by hand. […]

]]> By: Should you learn to speak Chinese before you learn Chinese characters? | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/is-it-necessary-to-learn-to-write-chinese-characters-by-hand/#comment-138766 Wed, 30 Jul 2025 06:44:26 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=2093#comment-138766 […] Listening → Speaking → Reading → Typing → Handwriting (optional) […]

]]> By: Student Q&A: May, 2025: Learning Chinese characters and words with flashcard apps | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/is-it-necessary-to-learn-to-write-chinese-characters-by-hand/#comment-132483 Wed, 07 May 2025 20:19:39 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=2093#comment-132483 […] Do you have to learn to write Chinese characters by hand? […]

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]]> By: Expanding your Chinese vocabulary with Chinese music – My Chinese Side https://www.hackingchinese.com/is-it-necessary-to-learn-to-write-chinese-characters-by-hand/#comment-127284 Fri, 17 Jan 2025 04:45:24 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=2093#comment-127284 […] Olle from Hacking Chinese points out in his article: “Do you have to learn Chinese characters by hand”, writing Chinese characters by hand isn’t necessary to learn Chinese. But in my opinion, […]

]]> By: Benchmarking progress to stay motivated | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/is-it-necessary-to-learn-to-write-chinese-characters-by-hand/#comment-126453 Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:19:23 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=2093#comment-126453 […] Typed texts vs. handwritten texts (if you care about handwriting). […]

]]> By: The building blocks of Chinese, part 1: Chinese characters and words in a nutshell | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/is-it-necessary-to-learn-to-write-chinese-characters-by-hand/#comment-125289 Thu, 07 Nov 2024 07:06:26 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=2093#comment-125289 […] This raises the question of whether you really need to learn to write by hand at all, as it takes much more effort and is unlikely to be of much practical use. The short answer is that you probably should learn to write the most common characters by hand, if for no other reason than getting a good grasp of how characters work, but that in the long run, most students would be okay with just reading and typing. If you feel that this answer is not enough, you can read more in this article: Is it necessary to learn to write Chinese characters by hand? […]

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]]> By: All the resources you need to learn and teach Chinese stroke order | Hacking Chinese | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/is-it-necessary-to-learn-to-write-chinese-characters-by-hand/#comment-122428 Tue, 03 Sep 2024 18:45:51 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=2093#comment-122428 […] Is it necessary to learn to write Chinese characters by hand? (article) – In this age of smartphones, computers and voice recognition, is it really necessary to learn to write Chinese characters by hand? My answer is yes, but not necessarily because you need to write a lot by hand. […]

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