how to write Chinese letters

This website explains a few things about writing Chinese letters (called かんじ in Japan) with a ballpen, marker or pencil. Not with a brush. Most Japanese use a brush to write about as often as you use parchment and quill.

This website is not intended to be an introduction to the Japanese language. I have another website about the Japanese language.

For the first lesson, you'll need square-ruled paper, white paper, and a black marker.

• vertical strokes
• slanted strokes
• basic strokes
• how to write the letter 目 eye
• don't make rectangles fully rectangular
• the letter 日 sun
• square writing and decorative writing
• the crooked 日 sun
• the letter 口 mouth
• not-so-basic strokes
• net
• 又 mata
• the equal distances rule
• the equal heights rule
• "equal distances" beats "equal heights"
• stacking up components
• the component water at left
• the letter 漫 manga no man
• (most) kanji must be as wide as they are high
• the broom
• the letter 田 field
• the letter 由 riyuu no yuu
• the component 凵 box
• the letter 画 gaka no ga
• the component roof
• the component 豕 pig
• the letter 家 ie "house, home, we"
• writing the word manngaka (まんがか)

indexes

1 亅 2 3 4 攵 5 7

General index:

1 亅 2 2/2 3 3e2 37酒 3/7家 39温 30漫 4 攵 44明 49煙 5正 目 54政 64殺 7 酉 8画

nickname index

appendixes:

• the radicals

vertical strokes

Copyright (c) 2008-2008 Jordi Mas Trullenque.
email: jordimastrullenque at gmail dot com
http://purl.oclc.org/net/kanjidic/index.en.html
Last revised: 2008-10-28