Comments on: Handwriting Chinese characters: The minimum requirements https://www.hackingchinese.com/handwriting-chinese-characters-the-minimum-requirements/ A better way of learning Mandarin Mon, 13 Oct 2025 04:18:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: 7 ways of learning to write Chinese characters | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/handwriting-chinese-characters-the-minimum-requirements/#comment-141698 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 04:18:41 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=5140#comment-141698 […] should you write the characters? I don’t mean how the characters are composed or what the strokes are supposed to look like, but what method do you use when practising to write […]

]]> By: How to not teach Chinese characters to beginners: A 12-step approach | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/handwriting-chinese-characters-the-minimum-requirements/#comment-141407 Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:51:37 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=5140#comment-141407 […] Make sure that beginners follow all the points mentioned here. This will guarantee that they write correctly, even if they won’t have time to learn anything else. Correctness and aesthetics should be the focus from day one; no excuses! […]

]]> By: All the resources you need to learn and teach Chinese stroke order | Hacking Chinese | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/handwriting-chinese-characters-the-minimum-requirements/#comment-117483 Sun, 18 Feb 2024 08:07:44 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=5140#comment-117483 […] Handwriting Chinese characters: The minimum requirements (article) – Not really the “minimum” requirements, but good info about how to write properly by hand, with tons of examples. Does not relate specifically to stroke order, but again, most of the things here are relevant for the same group of readers. […]

]]> By: How to learn Chinese characters: My best advice | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/handwriting-chinese-characters-the-minimum-requirements/#comment-105745 Sat, 31 Dec 2022 14:23:15 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=5140#comment-105745 […] Handwriting Chinese characters: The minimum requirements – This article goes through the nitty-gritty of writing characters by hand, the kind of things that your teacher might mention briefly now and then, but isn’t typically taught at all these days. Note that while the title says “minimum”, this goes beyond what most second language learners need. […]

]]> By: 陳筠 https://www.hackingchinese.com/handwriting-chinese-characters-the-minimum-requirements/#comment-70572 Thu, 03 Dec 2020 16:13:01 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=5140#comment-70572 I don’t see anything wrong with the 有… they show the same stroke order?

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]]> By: Five tips to improve your Chinese handwriting | The World of Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/handwriting-chinese-characters-the-minimum-requirements/#comment-44490 Mon, 21 Jan 2019 06:53:55 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=5140#comment-44490 […] Image via HackingChinese (X) […]

]]> By: alice https://www.hackingchinese.com/handwriting-chinese-characters-the-minimum-requirements/#comment-18980 Wed, 26 Apr 2017 19:09:29 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=5140#comment-18980 how can I hand writing chinese?

]]> By: Yushan Chen https://www.hackingchinese.com/handwriting-chinese-characters-the-minimum-requirements/#comment-18598 Sat, 08 Apr 2017 08:55:13 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=5140#comment-18598 In reply to Toghrul.

There is no 捺 （your so-called extender) in 我.

]]> By: Toghrul https://www.hackingchinese.com/handwriting-chinese-characters-the-minimum-requirements/#comment-13160 Fri, 21 Oct 2016 22:32:29 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=5140#comment-13160 With respect to 一字不二捺 : What about wo (I) then? Google gives 我, which apparently breaks the rule regarding rightmost extenders. I wonder what would be the correct way of writing this character.

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