With these, you’d still do as much of the three sides of the enclosure that you can then follow that with the inside portions. Examples of kanji like this include 同, 可, 月, 用, 病, and more. This even holds true for other types of enclosures, even ones that don’t close on the bottom. Whenever you see an enclosure like this, begin with the enclosure first. When you’re finished with the inside, you can finish off the enclosure with a single horizontal stroke (that’s stroke three from the last section). The main thing, though, is that you do three sides of the enclosure first (that’s the first two strokes of the box/enclosure) and then do everything on the inside. When you have a kanji like this that has an enclosure, really you can follow the same rules as you’ve been learning. There are a lot of kanji that consist of big squares surrounding something. Make sure you remember this, because the next rule requires this information! Enclose Contents On Three Sides First Then, the last stroke is a horizontal stroke from the left (always from the left, remember!) to close out the box. The horizontal one is second, though it turns at a right angle to continue to the bottom (all in one stroke). The strange thing about boxes is that they start with a vertical stroke instead of a horizontal one. It’s important to know the stroke order for a box since it affects other stroke-order related things as well. A lot of people make the mistake of writing these boxes using four strokes (one stroke for each side). One really basic thing that you need to know is that boxes (aka the 口 kanji) are only three strokes. When this is the case, you’ll want to write the vertical stroke before the sides, though you’ll still want to write any horizontal strokes before the vertical one (as is the case in the example for 木). Plus, they are symmetrical (or close enough, as is the case with 水). In both 木 (tree) and 水 (water) there are non-horizontal / non-vertical lines hugging both sides.
When there’s a vertical line with symmetrical characters on the outside of it, you do the vertical line first. Why are you writing the vertical line second, and not the two diagonals? What a great question, esteemed reader. The 木 character in the above section begs a question though. Center Vertical Before Symmetrical Outside This is usually where your first stroke will reside.
Whenever you start writing a kanji, begin here. You’ll also want to start with the horizontal strokes that are closer to the top left first. So now you know what direction to write all your strokes in, but what order do the strokes go in? Most of the time, you’ll want to do horizontal strokes first before doing the vertical ones. When you write vertical strokes, you go top to bottom (see image two). When you write horizontal strokes, they go left to right (see image one). Whatever you end up writing, know that when you write any single stroke it should be written either left to right or top to bottom. If there is no left-side start position because it’s a vertical line, you’ll want to write from top to bottom. This is a big one.When writing kanji, you always want to start your stroke on the left side of the line. Sure, there’ll be exceptions, but this is way better than learning the individual stroke orders of thousands of individual kanji. There are a set of general rules that you can learn to know the stroke order of 99% of all the kanji out there.
If you learn these rules you won’t have to waste time thinking about which stroke comes next – that way you can focus on the more important things. There are general rules and guidelines that you can follow to learn the stroke order of nearly any kanji out there, whether you’ve seen it before or not. I’m writing this guide for you so that you don’t have to spend a lot of time fussing around with stroke order. Maybe your teacher is making you… maybe you’re just interested in writing kanji. Although I’m not the type who believes you have to learn to write kanji by hand (who writes by hand nowadays?) there are plenty of people out there who have to do just that for one reason or another.
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