Why the Order of Writing Kanji is SUPER Important #shorts

If you are studying Japanese I’m sure you’ve learned that the characters all have orders you have to write the lines. But why is this so important? If it looks the same in the end, it doesn’t matter, does it? There are actually 3 big reasons why it’s super important!

1. Easier to remember
2. Learn to write faster
3. Learn to write neatly

For example, if you had to write a picture of Doraemon, wouldn’t be much easier if you knew the order of the lines of how to write him? By memorizing the order of how to write kanji, your hands will eventually be able to naturally write them without thinking so much.

Also, the order is created so that you can write the kanji the fastest and most neatly, and it will become much easier to read for other people. It might be a little frustrating at first, but in the long run, you will be able to learn kanji much faster if you memorize the order of writing them.

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[kynan]

I’ve also heard it’s important to know the line order so that you can still read the kanji in stylized fonts on store signs and whatnot

[Siseja]

Also the order influences the angles you come in at, which is extremely important in calligraphy

[LetsaskShogo]

If you are studying Japanese I’m sure you’ve learned that the characters all have orders you have to write the lines. But why is this so important? If it looks the same in the end, it doesn’t matter, does it? There are actually 3 big reasons why it’s super important!

1. Easier to remember
2. Learn to write faster
3. Learn to write neatly

For example, if you had to write a picture of Doraemon, wouldn’t be much easier if you knew the order of the lines of how to write him? By memorizing the order of how to write kanji, your hands will eventually be able to naturally write them without thinking so much.

Also, the order is created so that you can write the kanji the fastest and most neatly, and it will become much easier to read for other people. It might be a little frustrating at first, but in the long run, you will be able to learn kanji much faster if you memorize the order of writing them.

If you’d like to learn more about Japanese traditional culture, Kyoto, and social problems in Japan, please check out my channel & subscribe!

*The content is based on personal studies and experience
There is no intention of denying other theories and cultural aspects

[kkamiya]

I'm teaching my older son his Cantonese "kanji" since he was year 1 in primary school. There is a set of rules for the stroke order, and once he memorized them, can now look at any new words and have confidence how to write them, and the more complicated, the neater he writes, because the strokes are ordered in a way that sets up following strokes, as well as tell you where in the character it's situated.

The stroke order rules are as follows:
1. Horizontal strokes before vertical ones.
2. Go from top to bottom.
3. Go from left to right.
4. Go from outside, inside, then "close the door".
5. Do the dot stroke last.
6. Do the "content of the boat" first, then the boat last.

There are other rules, but the 6 above are the most basic and essential.

[mortadasaleh]

Used to always write Kanji by just looking at it without order. but after 5 years I decided to write them in order, and I my handwriting became fluent in writing Kanji, no kidding 😆 It felt like my hands can write Kanji faster even if I see a new Kanji.

[Zelmel]

A fourth reason is that a common way to look kanji up in some JP-EN dictionaries is SKIP code, which uses stroke count and stroke order to look up kanji.

[MezzaTheFox]

Actually, it's the same for other scripts. When I learned Cyrillic cursive in school, we did a lot of exercising, writing letters the correct way, we even had to practice how to joint letters, so they look neat and distinguishable from each other

[kakalukium]

TRUTH! The order will save your Imagine having to write 勉強 and having NOOO idea where to start. You will cry.

[dominicw]

The order of writing in Kanji is important because many kanji have their roots, which is the radical/indexing component. The majority of kanji are phono-semantic compounds. For example, the kanji word shown in the video "像", it has the radical of man and the phonetic component "象"。Also traditionally in East Asia, kanji is written from right to left, both horizontal and vertical. But now most kanji characters in East Asia are written from left to right due to modernisation.

[gradesam]

Because of this, now I can't make a square in any other way beside the proper way to make a square or rectangular-shaped kanji character, like 口 or 白.

[garlicbread]

This. Especially Kanji with more than 3 radicals is hard to write in such a small space, so stroke order is literally designed to make it easier and legible

[himesilva]

I have to say, oftentimes it really doesn't feel like the proper writing order is the easiest or fastest way. However, I'll trust that people who've been writing Kanji for hundreds of years would know best 😅

[scary.garcia]

it also helps me read more stylized, 'cursive' calligraphy since knowing the stroke order helps me anticipate which strokes will flow into other strokes most naturally

[mafuuya]

memorising stroke order seems like a hassle at first, but i feel like it gets easy and intuitive super fast once you remember the strone order of common radicals and so on. of every kanji i know i also know the stroke order and whenever i want to visualise the kanji in my head, i can basically see it being drawn in the right order. it makes memorising the kanji way way easier since you’re not just trying to remember an image, you’re memorising a movement

[U.V_]

Its so nostalgic seeing the droaemon drawing

[CharlieApples]

It’s also helpful when you encounter kanji you’re unfamiliar with. Counting the strokes makes it easier to guess the meaning by its individual elements.

[gundampharmacist]

I’d like to add a fourth reason: Japanese kanji can be broken down into components, one of which will be its bushu, or radical. Knowing the stroke count, components and ideally the radical allows you to look up a kanji you don’t know the reading of far easier than almost any kind of search. All of these are made far easier to learn by learning the proper stroke order

[TakeL]

i like how he is serious when he said "Doraemon"

[kasvinimuniandy]

My kindergarten teacher made us write the strokes in order with a different colour. Used to dread that homework until something clicked one day and I loved doing that. I think it worked significantly in helping me remember strokes.