Stroke order is important!! #kanji #japaneselanguagelearning #strokeorder

[pootch]

The real sin was diving the middle line into 3 strokes, like how do you even think of that???

[mikemhz]

Imagine writing the letter A in 5 strokes

[atomixfang]

The good thing is that you dont even need to learn the stroke order for every kanji, once you learn the rules, you can start to infer how to write most of them.

[ポラス-bf]

Chinese here, I would say don't focus on it too much(like checking the stroke order every time you learned a new character) remembering some basic rules is all you really need.

[Mew]

As a Chinese, i am offended by that first clip and i am traumatized

[ntw]

I've seen enough native Japanese handwriting to know that absolutely nothing people are learning is helping them write neatly

[BallinVengeance]

If you’re too lazy for that, remember
1. Top to bottom
2. Left to right
Works 60% of the time. Or in other terms often enough.

[buffyVampslyr]

Getting the stroke order right makes it so much easier to write the characters too. That person made it way harder for themselves than they had to. 😩😭

[pyromaniac]

I’d say its even more important now than ever cause my devices never recognize what im trying to write if it’s the wrong stroke order

[JL_hahaha]

Chinese here, yes learning those stroke orders help you write, but as I reader I don’t care how you write it, the character on the right is readable and understandable as the one on the left 😊 meaning being, it’s always helpful to learn that but don’t get yourself stressed over that too much, it’s okay if you make mistakes in the stroke order la 😊

[hedge]

I learned stroke order at the same time I was learning kanji and I found it really fun. It's nice to be reminded how it benefits me since I take it for granted at this point. It's really useful to know how they're built, definitely helps me with reading, especially certain fonts!

[privaterizk]

"Boost your memory"
Especially that the complicated Kanji formed from simple Kanji. Not just visual/writing wise, but also the meaning.

[BobTheTrueCactus]

The most important thing is that it massively reduces the complexity of kanji.

If you learn it without stroke order, each new character has to be learned on its own. If you learn it with stroke order you basically just need to learn the radicals and then where to place them. It's more difficult at the beginning - but if you're just half way serious, you won't stop after knowing only 300-500 kanji. It's a marathon and you need to think long term.

[incomplet]

In my experience it also helps you learn to write new characters much quicker

[jpnpod]

I'm not gonna say that learning stroke order is a bad thing, but personally, I think learning to write in general isn't worth the time investment. There's a lot of kanji that even Japanese people themselves have long forgotten how to write since leaving highschool. In our modern age of using cellphones and computers for pretty much everything we do, most text that you will ever come across will be digital. There is not a lot of situations where handwriting would be necessary. And even when it is, like filling out a document or something, you can always simply look up the characters on your phone and copy them. As long as you can read, you should be fine. Writing is just an extra hassle with little benefit.

[valeria_ragonese]

Stroke order is SO important to develop muscle memory (when you practice A LOT!)! I lost track of how many times my hand completed the kanji before my brain had to think how to write that kanji, it's like magic.

[littleladyhau]

It looked deliberate, as if the person tried really hard to get it wrong

[sarahraisingmyvoice]

This makes perfect sense to me. I’m a teacher in the US and work with a variety of grade-levels. Stroke order AND direction make a huge difference. Teaching handwriting in any language or alphabet is a truly under-appreciated art form.

(I had kids last year who wrote their lowercase “f” in 3 strokes instead of 2)

[eljaminlatour]

Not only that. 東("higashi", east) represents the sun behind a tree. 日("hi", sun/day) + 木("ki", tree). The vertical stroke in the middle is not from 日, but from 木。

[AAAndrew]

I know it's not so important anymore, but if you ever have to use a paper dictionary for kanji, a large number of them use number of strokes which you would only know if you know stroke order. I come at this from learning Chinese and Classical Chinese and was so glad I learned stroke order.