{"id":48,"date":"2011-11-24T19:39:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T00:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scallender.info\/?p=48"},"modified":"2012-03-02T13:46:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T18:46:48","slug":"is-there-a-correct-way-of-writing-chinese-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scallender.info\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Is there a correct way of writing Chinese?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, there is a correct way of writing Chinese characters.\u00a0 In order to look up a Chinese character, you must know stroke order and the number of strokes in a particular Chinese character.\u00a0 To give an example, let\u2019s look at the Chinese character below that means:\u00a0 everlasting or eternal<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 It takes 5 strokes to write this character!<\/p>\n

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This character shows the correct order as well is the correct stroke order.\u00a0 So the correct order is always top to bottom, and left to right<\/strong>.\u00a0 This character also shows all the strokes of Chinese calligraphy.<\/p>\n

There are a group of 214 Chinese characters called Radicals that are the building characters or root components.<\/p>\n

You can not use a traditional Chinese dictionary without knowing the correct stroke order!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is a page below from one of my many Chinese books.<\/p>\n

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Yes, there is a correct way of writing Chinese characters.\u00a0 In order to look up a Chinese character, you must know stroke order and the number of strokes in a particular Chinese character.\u00a0 To give an example, let\u2019s look at … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,9,10],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginner","tag-chinese-dictionary","tag-stroke-order","tag-writing-chinese-characters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t