Stroke Order
I just found out today that the stroke order for Japanese kanji is not necessarily the same as for Chinese hanzi. For instance, consider the character 美, meaning beautiful. In Chinese, you make two horizontal strokes before the vertical stroke, but in Japanese the vertical stroke comes after the first horizontal stroke. This came up today because we went to a "Japanese Cultural Experience" in which we learned about tea, origami, and calligraphy. My host family came to the campus today to participate with me. I'm so used to Chinese stroke order that I actually had a hard time wrapping my mind around the different order when painting the character. I've stayed up until 11:00 tonight in an attempt to battle jet lag. Hopefully I'll be able to wake up later than 4:00 am tomorrow...
posted by Justin @ 6/16/2005 06:50:00 AM
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I didn't know that. Did they tell you why the stroke order is different, or what governs the order? How do you like the bitter green tea? *bitter face*
Calligraphy is fun! I want to go paint now! But I'm in my cube *pout*
Is there a way of showing (without scrolling down the page) if new comments have been added? It's a pain to scroll up and down each time. I know I asked you this months ago, but, as is typical for me, I forgot :p
My only possible explanation is that the guy who brought Chinese characters over here 2000 years ago was asleep during the stroke order lecture :-)
I don't think that there is any way to search for new comments...
hey justin, email me back! :)
wow. this blog is seeing a lot of heavy justin-carol action. i'd better contribute.
hi justin in japan! this is annie -- now in new york. do you have a flickr account? because i know you probably have a digital camera w/ you. if so, you should get a (free) flickr account and contribute to this:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/engrish/pool/
xo
annie
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