😂 it’s quite mind boggingly difficult, I speak Cantonese but do not speak or write Mandarin Chinese....this is a whole new ball game especially since I’ve started to teach my 7 year old daughter Chinese...atm it’s kinda like the blind leading the blind 😊 surprisingly she’s learning pretty well. I’m just doing so much work learning the names of the strokes and sequence of writing 🥴
@@michaelpayne8691 hi Michael, my daughters learning of Chinese is going ok I’d say but in all honesty we lack the interaction and conversation with a person who speaks Chinese so it’s hard to get a smooth conversation out of her, also she is entirely reliant on herself to do her work, stroke sequence, figuring out grammar, etc so there’s only so much a 10 year old can do. I think I need to find a conversation buddy for her to practice speaking. Can you give me any tips on how you are helping your little one learn Chinese?
don't know if I will ever concentrate on language because I'm still learning Spanish and I have my hands full, but I appreciate the basic information you shared. Thumbs up sir.
Thank you SO much for explaining that it goes from top left to bottom right. I looked at tons of videos and I was so confused as to which rule I should begin with. This is the best video so far!!! Thank you!!!
It's really annoying. It much like grammatical gender in German and Latin. It's there and you just have to know it. It's not difficult to understand but it becomes annoying to remember, but there are some rules to help.
Rule 4 doesn't apply to the character "huǒ" (火), fire. One does the two dots first, and then the "person" (人) in the middle. It's a thing I noticed I had been doing wrong 😋 Great video by the way~
that's interesting. when you look at the fire character its almost the same as person just take the 2 sides strokes off and you have person. but what im curious about is that is there any chinese concept which means the fire inside a person? just curious.
+nocturnalserpent Hi. There is no relation. 火 is just a very simplified image of a fire. The original character really looked like the flames of a fire with dots representing sparks (literally something like this 🔥). After several rounds of simplifications and standardizations, Chinese scholars ended up with 火. The contours of 人 just happen to fit this super-simplified image best. It happens very often.
Just came back to the US from learning Chinese in Shanghai and I was never taught these rules and it would have helped me so much. I now have bad habits when writing hanzi.
I don't even think about the rules. I don't think I was ever taught it but as we learn to write the characters during penmanship homework, I suddenly know which strokes should come first. I think it's just a natural instinct that comes when you write enough characters.
(translation) Thank you for carrying forward the Chinese culture. You have a deep understanding of the meaning and writing of Chinese characters. Even I myself don’t remember where the font is and some basic rules
Question: With the very last character you work on, the very first stroke you make is from right to left, or at least that's what it looked like. That seems to contradict what you said in the very beginning. Can you please explain that out. Thanks
Hello. Thank you for the question. It is because the first stroke in the 我 character is a left-falling stroke that has to be written from right to left. In full form, it is this stroke: 丿but because of its position, length and formatting, it looks like it is almost horizontal and resembles 一 very much. I talk more about individual stroke types in this video: th-cam.com/video/WqCeT0e8VK0/w-d-xo.html and mention this exact small detail in several other videos as well.
theforeverastudent Ah. Many thanks for the quick reply. That makes sense. Yours is the very first video I've watched regarding writing Chinese characters. I'm still using pinyin to learn how to speak Mandarin, but your video came up on my "recommended" videos, so I figured I'd check it out. Not sure I'm quite ready to move on to learning characters, but this was still very interesting. I've saved it for later viewing. Thanks
Thanks for the video; it helped a lot. Quick question: how do you make a stroke like this / (not legit Chinese stroke, but an example of that diagonal line)? Do you go down, breaking the left to right rule, or do you go right, breaking the up to down rule? Asking anyone who knows. Thanks!
Phenomenal explanation, thank you very much! Would you mind sharing where you learned this from? (your book is on my wishlist, I guess you share it there =D ) I had a laoshi who gave me these and so many more rules (especially on combining the characters for making words etc), basically all oral tradition based, would love to review if a reliable online source is available! I appreciate you sharing your brilliance with us! All the best!
@@theforeverastudent thank you anyway for the answer, Vladimir. Still reading your blog :) awesome stuff! Do you know any Hebrew? Arabic and Sanskrit would come right after very easily! (well... and Persian too, which you mentioned in one of your posts). And the grammar for verbs conjugation is pretty much the same as the French/Spanish/Portuguese languages (unsure if it's correct to group them as "Latin")
@@theforeverastudent hmmm... maybe you dont know them YET.... you already know Chinese, so plenty of time left ;-) duolingo/memrise are helping me a lot to keep up, great YT channels too. Infinite gratitude towards you brilliant people! Best blessings and regards!
Thank you for making this video. I'll share it with my students. BTW, what is the software you used to fill in the yellow color and make it go away as needed? Thanks again!
Was a really good video and you didn't ramble but I would have liked a few more examples and a bit more discussion on wo. I don't understand why if horizontals come first, you do that bottom (horizontalish) stroke after you do the vertical. What rule does that stroke come under?
Hello. The reason why the horizontalish stroke came after the vertical one was, that the vertical was already there following previous stroke order rules as I was proceeding through the character. You go from left to right, top to bottom and in case you have a horizontal and a vertical stroke in the same character segment and they cross, the horizontal goes first. Proceeding through 我, the vertical overlapped into the bottom of the character. The only thing you could do further is to cross it with the vertical stroke. I made a video about the 我 character only (th-cam.com/video/fXw_hrdOJCI/w-d-xo.html). You can check it out if you like.
Jack Wyldeck This applies to both horizontalish strokes in the lower section of the character. You are crossing the top horizontal stroke, the vertical ends up in the bottom segment, since you have to finish the left side first, all there is left is to do is to add the horizontalish stroke. Same goes for the other horizontalish (the left one is called 提 ti2 , the right one 撇 pie3).
im from a chinese family, lived in fujian the frist 3 years of my life, i know how to speak and im fluent but dont know much about writing. everyone in spain ask me why you dont know how to write if i know how to speak (thats anoying btw) And every chinese i have meet in spain has asked me if i was from the southern part of china (if so many people without knowing you at all knows from where are you from thats a sign of strong acent)
Hello. It's because the first stroke in 我 is a really short 丿 and not a 一 stroke. A 一 stroke is written left to right and a 丿 is written top to bottom left. When 丿 is very short like in 我 or 仁 it looks like it's almost horizontal but it's still the 丿stroke you thus have to start from the right. You know that it's 丿and not 一 because 丿 is thicker on the top or right end.
Understanding Chinese Characters ohhh thanks, i stopped learning it was too hard. i think i didnt even start haha. how do u think i should start learning chinese?
I understand now:) Maybe in the future, but this is a channel mostly for beginners and intermediate students and I'm afraid vocabulary like that would be too technical. All the best.
+ASSympt0te if i'm correct, japanese and lorean are appling the same rule as chinese writing system. these two country's writing systems are influenced by chinese. and there is no way around. however, you can start from right side of paper to left. that should be in vertical form.
Difficult to recall character from stroke. It is easy to write part Eg Using ㄣ, or フ，L to FORM 与与马写鸟与吗妈 勺 鸟乌鸦,呜. ㄣ denote bird leg, or horse, pen .counter check with handphone keyboard If forget use voice input For foreigners, using two L 7, to form 口，then try to write 曰 目白 由早 四回西 胃旧申...，then filled up to form 吕,串，石，check handphone software, using voice inputs together。 for 出 ，to write using two u, u and l,to form 出 凹 巾帼 离 山 巨 叵 匠 臣 革 第 策If forget use voice input Using ㄣ 乛 or use L to form
Hello. I'm happy you found the video interesting. It was just a general introduction to stroke rules, that's why I didn't go into too much detail. If you would like to see 我 explained more in detail, I made an entire video about it here th-cam.com/video/fXw_hrdOJCI/w-d-xo.html
Hello! Thanks a lot for this useful video. By the way, I notice many people keep on talking about Rocelangue Method (google it), but I'm not sure if it is really good. Have you tried using this how to speak foreign language tutorial known as Rocelangue Method? I have heard several incredible things about it.
Thanks so much so this series. I have been looking for exactly this, stroke order of all hsk1 words plus meaning of parts of characters and where else they show up etc. I really appreciate this! Does this playlist cover most of the hsk1 words?
There is a chinese stroke keyboard on iOS, and here I figured out how to write 1-10. 一 is 一 二 is 一一 三 is 一一一 四 is 丨乛丿乛一 五 is 一丨乛一 六 is 丶一丿丶 七 is 一乛 八 is 丿丶 九 is 丿乛 十 is 一丨
I need to confirm how to write some characters. I am studying chinese from yoyo chinese and for the character li3, according to them, they do the vertical line before the last two horizontal lines, which is not what is shown in some other websites..
That's bullshit and doesn't make sense as the caractere woo the cuts the stroke buttom and them draw the dot up...where goes the rule top to buttom ? In the 1# caractere who will point out if I draw the middle fist ?
nk okay well first, it's C.H.A.R.A.C.T.ER learn how to spell. And second of all this is just the right way to write way to write characters and it might not always seem that important but in my school we have to learn Mandarin and we are graded on how we write characters and we have to follow these steps.
Ayana Chang thanks for the character, I'm native Portuguese speaker improving my English and trying to also learn French, some times its get confuse and I switch some word. About the rules for strokes order I keep thinking that's just annoying.
I don't speak, write, or understand chineese at all. it is 2 am and I have homework to do, but here I am. waddup
We've all been there.
😂 it’s quite mind boggingly difficult, I speak Cantonese but do not speak or write Mandarin Chinese....this is a whole new ball game especially since I’ve started to teach my 7 year old daughter Chinese...atm it’s kinda like the blind leading the blind 😊 surprisingly she’s learning pretty well. I’m just doing so much work learning the names of the strokes and sequence of writing 🥴
me who actually has to do this homework
@@jennyli7749 how is the Chinese going for her now? I have begun the same with my 6 yo
@@michaelpayne8691 hi Michael, my daughters learning of Chinese is going ok I’d say but in all honesty we lack the interaction and conversation with a person who speaks Chinese so it’s hard to get a smooth conversation out of her, also she is entirely reliant on herself to do her work, stroke sequence, figuring out grammar, etc so there’s only so much a 10 year old can do. I think I need to find a conversation buddy for her to practice speaking. Can you give me any tips on how you are helping your little one learn Chinese?
It makes sense that you shouldn't close the box with the lower horizontal lines before you make the center part since how else would you "enter" it.
David Hughes don't close the doors before you let the people in😊
I don't know why, but I laughed at your comment :D
Thank you. ♥
Ayana Chang
Even if there is nobody.
That actually makes a lot of sense, also explains why you close the inner box before the outer box so you can "get out"
don't know if I will ever concentrate on language because I'm still learning Spanish and I have my hands full, but I appreciate the basic information you shared. Thumbs up sir.
Thank you SO much for explaining that it goes from top left to bottom right. I looked at tons of videos and I was so confused as to which rule I should begin with. This is the best video so far!!! Thank you!!!
回 Put everything in before closing the door！
When I first learn Chinese when I was 7 years old, I thought it need to write enclosure first before writing inside part, but now I truly understand
@@sirawith5019 7 years old!? You are a brilliant!
@@welike4278 Yes, now I know all stroke order rules and remembered over 200 characters
@@sirawith5019 👍📚🖋 You learnt it because you like Chinese?
@@welike4278 Of course, I am good at language
As a native speaker I image the stroke order would confuse the hell out of non Native speakers.
Yes, yes it does
Not me, ( okey a little but with those hard chinese character )
ya,well you guessed right my dude...LMAO
It's really annoying. It much like grammatical gender in German and Latin. It's there and you just have to know it. It's not difficult to understand but it becomes annoying to remember, but there are some rules to help.
you are completely correct. lmao
Hello. I'm glad you found the video interesting. The software is called SmoothDraw 3.
Rule 4 doesn't apply to the character "huǒ" (火), fire. One does the two dots first, and then the "person" (人) in the middle. It's a thing I noticed I had been doing wrong 😋 Great video by the way~
that's interesting. when you look at the fire character its almost the same as person just take the 2 sides strokes off and you have person. but what im curious about is that is there any chinese concept which means the fire inside a person? just curious.
+nocturnalserpent Hi. There is no relation. 火 is just a very simplified image of a fire. The original character really looked like the flames of a fire with dots representing sparks (literally something like this 🔥). After several rounds of simplifications and standardizations, Chinese scholars ended up with 火. The contours of 人 just happen to fit this super-simplified image best. It happens very often.
Rule is left to right and then top to bottom. Hence rule is very much applicable. Start from top left to right.
fire is the only character i know thanks to avatar the last airbender ahaha
Oh really, I've always done the left dot, the left line, the right dot and the right line
thanks that was useful because i've just started learning chinese
Not at all. I got all the strokes correct. Only an extra effort is required.
How did it go
livie Katharina advanced intermediate
三小and三八in the video
Just came back to the US from learning Chinese in Shanghai and I was never taught these rules and it would have helped me so much. I now have bad habits when writing hanzi.
Very clear and easy-to-follow. I really enjoyed your presentation!
Thank you. I'm glad you liked the video.
thank you I wish you would have continued with the meaning of the characters.
I don't even think about the rules. I don't think I was ever taught it but as we learn to write the characters during penmanship homework, I suddenly know which strokes should come first. I think it's just a natural instinct that comes when you write enough characters.
well explained the writing system of chinese characters. thank you.
谢谢你把中国文化发扬光大，中文字的意思与书写，你都了解的非常深入。就连我自己都不记得字体的去向和一些基本规则。
(translation)
Thank you for carrying forward the Chinese culture. You have a deep understanding of the meaning and writing of Chinese characters. Even I myself don’t remember where the font is and some basic rules
Very interesting. Just began a character course and haven't gotten to the rules of strokes yet
Very first in starting I thought it's not useful that much but when I saw this more I found it useful till last
So , yea that was useful bro..
thank you for this. it helps me a lot since i'm going to start learning chinese and writing chinese characters confuses me a lot
I am just starting to learn chinese. This is really helpful. Thanks!
Willy Willey Glad you enjoyed the video.
How is your chinese now dude
Question: With the very last character you work on, the very first stroke you make is from right to left, or at least that's what it looked like. That seems to contradict what you said in the very beginning. Can you please explain that out.
Thanks
Hello. Thank you for the question. It is because the first stroke in the 我 character is a left-falling stroke that has to be written from right to left. In full form, it is this stroke: 丿but because of its position, length and formatting, it looks like it is almost horizontal and resembles 一 very much. I talk more about individual stroke types in this video: th-cam.com/video/WqCeT0e8VK0/w-d-xo.html and mention this exact small detail in several other videos as well.
theforeverastudent
Ah. Many thanks for the quick reply. That makes sense.
Yours is the very first video I've watched regarding writing Chinese characters. I'm still using pinyin to learn how to speak Mandarin, but your video came up on my "recommended" videos, so I figured I'd check it out. Not sure I'm quite ready to move on to learning characters, but this was still very interesting. I've saved it for later viewing.
Thanks
irpacynot I'm glad you found it interesting:) Good luck with your studies.
I like how the fourth rule blatantly contradicts the second rule. Really gets in a way of trying to remember the proper stroke order
Helpful video for my homework on Chinese characters
Why is the 我 3rd stroke the vertical one and not the horizontal?
Thanks for the video; it helped a lot. Quick question: how do you make a stroke like this / (not legit Chinese stroke, but an example of that diagonal line)? Do you go down, breaking the left to right rule, or do you go right, breaking the up to down rule? Asking anyone who knows. Thanks!
That's cool and useful. It would be great if you could teach more about factory ( Factory often use or technical words)
Hello. I'm not sure I understand. You mean the factory the building?
So, when writing Chinese, constructing each character is basically akin to rebuilding a carburetor.
解释的非常有意思，绝对地思考的力量
Why did you rush through the most complicated of the 6 examples, which is one of the most common you will ever use?
So characters should be written in either of these way(s):
Top to bottom
Left to right
Outer to inner
Phenomenal explanation, thank you very much! Would you mind sharing where you learned this from? (your book is on my wishlist, I guess you share it there =D )
I had a laoshi who gave me these and so many more rules (especially on combining the characters for making words etc), basically all oral tradition based, would love to review if a reliable online source is available! I appreciate you sharing your brilliance with us! All the best!
Hello and thank you for the comment. Actually, I don't remember where I learned this from. Probably from our professors at the Chinese department.
@@theforeverastudent thank you anyway for the answer, Vladimir. Still reading your blog :) awesome stuff! Do you know any Hebrew? Arabic and Sanskrit would come right after very easily! (well... and Persian too, which you mentioned in one of your posts). And the grammar for verbs conjugation is pretty much the same as the French/Spanish/Portuguese languages (unsure if it's correct to group them as "Latin")
@@_avecelegance No, I don't know any of those languages unfortunately:)
@@theforeverastudent hmmm... maybe you dont know them YET.... you already know Chinese, so plenty of time left ;-) duolingo/memrise are helping me a lot to keep up, great YT channels too. Infinite gratitude towards you brilliant people! Best blessings and regards!
Thank you for making this video. I'll share it with my students. BTW, what is the software you used to fill in the yellow color and make it go away as needed? Thanks again!
The traditional way to learn to write beautiful Chinese characters ,is to use traditional Chinese black color ink ,黑色墨水，Chinese Pen 墨笔
I'm glad you liked it:)
Was a really good video and you didn't ramble but I would have liked a few more examples and a bit more discussion on wo. I don't understand why if horizontals come first, you do that bottom (horizontalish) stroke after you do the vertical. What rule does that stroke come under?
Hello. The reason why the horizontalish stroke came after the vertical one was, that the vertical was already there following previous stroke order rules as I was proceeding through the character. You go from left to right, top to bottom and in case you have a horizontal and a vertical stroke in the same character segment and they cross, the horizontal goes first. Proceeding through 我, the vertical overlapped into the bottom of the character. The only thing you could do further is to cross it with the vertical stroke.
I made a video about the 我 character only (th-cam.com/video/fXw_hrdOJCI/w-d-xo.html). You can check it out if you like.
Thanks but are you confusing it with the other one? I mean the bottom crossing stroke on the left side of the character
Jack Wyldeck This applies to both horizontalish strokes in the lower section of the character. You are crossing the top horizontal stroke, the vertical ends up in the bottom segment, since you have to finish the left side first, all there is left is to do is to add the horizontalish stroke. Same goes for the other horizontalish (the left one is called 提 ti2 , the right one 撇 pie3).
awesome thanks
Thanks for the video man, really good!
I'm glad you find it useful:)
Imagine being me... Learned chinese for 8 years but dont know stroke orders
And yess i am a native speaker
im from a chinese family, lived in fujian the frist 3 years of my life, i know how to speak and im fluent but dont know much about writing. everyone in spain ask me why you dont know how to write if i know how to speak (thats anoying btw) And every chinese i have meet in spain has asked me if i was from the southern part of china (if so many people without knowing you at all knows from where are you from thats a sign of strong acent)
thankyou this was very clear and helpful!
thank you for your video, can you explain please, why did you go from the right to the left, in the first stroke of 我, it really confuses me
Hello. It's because the first stroke in 我 is a really short 丿 and not a 一 stroke. A 一 stroke is written left to right and a 丿 is written top to bottom left. When 丿 is very short like in 我 or 仁 it looks like it's almost horizontal but it's still the 丿stroke you thus have to start from the right. You know that it's 丿and not 一 because 丿 is thicker on the top or right end.
Understanding Chinese Characters I got it now, thank you so much!
I’m chinese and I write it from left to right I don’t think it matters that much
Is that traditional or simplified? Thanks in advance 😀😀
nathanaellandicho Hello. Traditional and simplified both:)
Understanding Chinese Characters ohhh thanks, i stopped learning it was too hard. i think i didnt even start haha. how do u think i should start learning chinese?
Well explained, Thank you!
thank you teacher
May i share your video? it is important for others to understand the stroke order of Chinese characters. thank you.
+jie yang Yes of course. Go ahead.
Understanding Chinese Characters thanks!!!
+Understanding Chinese Characters does this work for japanese too?
yes, but they have developed their own characters.
Thanks for fast reply. I mean manufacturing factory. Ex: sewing machine, scissor,... Etc.
I understand now:) Maybe in the future, but this is a channel mostly for beginners and intermediate students and I'm afraid vocabulary like that would be too technical. All the best.
this helped immensely
Do these rules also apply to Japanese Kanji, or are there different rules?
Hello. I'm not too sure about this, but they should.
Yes, it applies to Japanese kanji
+ASSympt0te if i'm correct, japanese and lorean are appling the same rule as chinese writing system. these two country's writing systems are influenced by chinese. and there is no way around. however, you can start from right side of paper to left. that should be in vertical form.
Thanks for this video !
Difficult to recall character from stroke. It is easy to write part Eg Using ㄣ, or フ，L to FORM 与与马写鸟与吗妈 勺 鸟乌鸦,呜. ㄣ denote bird leg, or horse, pen .counter check with handphone keyboard
If forget use voice input
For foreigners, using two L 7, to form 口，then try to write 曰 目白 由早 四回西 胃旧申...，then filled up to form 吕,串，石，check handphone software, using voice inputs together。
for 出 ，to write using two u, u and l,to form 出 凹
巾帼 离 山 巨 叵 匠 臣 革 第 策If forget use voice input
Using ㄣ 乛 or use L to form
what software did you use to write in this video?
Hello. The software is called Smoothdraw.
Great video!
Ok ill see what i can do 這裡沒有醫生 i dont know what i just wrote
?? ?? dont have Doctor?
Pinyin: zhèlǐ méiyǒu yīshēng
Thank you.
I thought it was a very good video. Learning stroke order is important. I think you need to explain "wo" a little more. You went trough it very fast.
Hello. I'm happy you found the video interesting. It was just a general introduction to stroke rules, that's why I didn't go into too much detail. If you would like to see 我 explained more in detail, I made an entire video about it here th-cam.com/video/fXw_hrdOJCI/w-d-xo.html
Thanks!
Hello! Thanks a lot for this useful video. By the way, I notice many people keep on talking about Rocelangue Method (google it), but I'm not sure if it is really good. Have you tried using this how to speak foreign language tutorial known as Rocelangue Method? I have heard several incredible things about it.
Touhidul Islam Thank you. No, I've never heard of the Rocelangue method.
Thank you
Thanks so much so this series. I have been looking for exactly this, stroke order of all hsk1 words plus meaning of parts of characters and where else they show up etc. I really appreciate this!
Does this playlist cover most of the hsk1 words?
Thanks
谢谢 I'm learning basic Chinese and there are some characters that are giving me a little trouble haha
But this is very helpful :)
Wish you the best in your studies:)
Analise hows it going?
Hola puedes traducirlo en español o italiano. ¡Gracias!. Ciao puoi tradurlo in spagnolo o italiano. Grazie!
I don't know if visualizing this on a computer is better than seeing a hand and pen. Nonetheless very helpful
I'm glad you found the video useful.
Thank you for sharing this video with us! I will show it to my students :)
There is a chinese stroke keyboard on iOS, and here I figured out how to write 1-10.
一 is 一
二 is 一一
三 is 一一一
四 is 丨乛丿乛一
五 is 一丨乛一
六 is 丶一丿丶
七 is 一乛
八 is 丿丶
九 is 丿乛
十 is 一丨
謝謝你
it was helpful thank you
I'm glad you found the video useful.
My 谢谢
haha i see what you did therw
你太棒了！
I'm singaporean chinese but i write 小 with the dots first, shit
I need to confirm how to write some characters. I am studying chinese from yoyo chinese and for the character li3, according to them, they do the vertical line before the last two horizontal lines, which is not what is shown in some other websites..
A bit too fast on 我 but great video.
It would be more helpful to show the writing instead of clicking
Nice
interesting
中 is a Middle Because it looks like a soccer field and the and a | is in the middle and 大 is Someone is stretching they Arms To say Big
Howdy y'all 😁
Ask me after 1 year how my Chinese language studying going.
Then ask me after 2-5 years!
I hate to be that guy, but the word is leftmost, not lefternmost.
Sorry but it really bothered me.
Xiexie ni. 😃
Ughhh I feel like I’ve got whiplash trying to learn 🤪
That's bullshit and doesn't make sense as the caractere woo the cuts the stroke buttom and them draw the dot up...where goes the rule top to buttom ? In the 1# caractere who will point out if I draw the middle fist ?
nk okay well first, it's C.H.A.R.A.C.T.ER learn how to spell. And second of all this is just the right way to write way to write characters and it might not always seem that important but in my school we have to learn Mandarin and we are graded on how we write characters and we have to follow these steps.
Ayana Chang thanks for the character, I'm native Portuguese speaker improving my English and trying to also learn French, some times its get confuse and I switch some word. About the rules for strokes order I keep thinking that's just annoying.
this reminds me of PEDMAS
you don't need to keep saying 'proceed.' talk less; show more
like PEMDAS
π
0:35 - When the video actually starts
三入十小回我
三八十小回我