posted by seamus5 on May 12, 2012 | 2 comments
How do I know the correct stroke order?So, I have signed up for a premium account. I love all the additional materials, especially the writing sheets. The problem is is I have a hard time using them when I don't know how to write the characters. And I don't know how to find that answer.I have found several websites online that help show the stroke orders of the Chinese characters. The problem with those is that they just list the characters and there's no way to search. That means that I have to try to eyeball the correct character in order to find it and that takes forever. Also, they're not guaranteed to have the character I'm looking for.Is there a simpler solution? If I want to take the HSK, I cannot learn an incorrect way for writing...
drummerboy on May 12, 2012 | reply
@ seamus5,Download this and it will help. http://itunes.apple.com/app/chinese-writer/id374152537?mt=8
@seamus5,
The good news is that once you know the basics of stroke order you can pretty much write any character that you want. For learning them, you might want to check out either our lesson series on how to write Chinese characters, our Writing Pad for practicing on random characters or our Chinese Writer iPad/iPhone app, which is free, includes a brief tutorial on getting started and supports about 1000 characters.
One of the things we're working on is a way to upgrade this to much higher resolution graphics, support a much larger number of characters, and to make the process of teaching radicals more intuitive along with characters. In the meantime, though, hopefully it will give a start.