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#OLD CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY FONT HOW TO#
Especially for some of the more complicated characters, one may forget how precisely a it character look, yet remember how to write it by following the correct order. Secondly, stroke order is a great learning aid.
#OLD CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY FONT WINDOWS 7#
Windows 7 TIP Japanese - Handwriting recognition In the same way as by speaking improperly, your bad handwriting may make a bad impression on the others. Moreover, in Japan, an opinion about you may be formed based on your calligraphy. You may not believe it at first, but try writing the same kanji with different stroke orders and you’ll see the difference. Shodō (書道, Japanese calligraphy) is an art that was practiced for centuries in Japan and thus, the proper way of writing kanji is a very well researched topic.
When you combine this typographic rule with the often incredible amount of strokes involved, it becomes clear, why writing nicely looking characters may be so difficult. Why is kanji stroke order important? Lean the art of Calligraphyįirst of all, unlike the Latin alphabet (or Cyrillic, for that matter) the Chinese characters and their Japanese deviations are always monospaced-each character occupies the same amount of space. In this article I’ll try to explain why it generally is important to use correct stroke order and what are the basic rules that should cover the majority of the kanji characters. Most students are left wondering about why they are supposed to learn one more characteristic for each of the already complicated character, and some of them decide not to follow any of the well established rules at all. Unfortunately, the reason behind it as well as the main rules are often left undiscussed. When a student is taught kanji, one of the first thing that is explained to him is the concept of stroke order-the one and only correct way of writing kanji characters. Posted on October 31st, 2009 by seifip in Design, Language |
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