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Stroke order is very important when writing kanji, for good reason: it helps memorize the characters and also makes them look well-balanced. Also, trying to rea
by apricot 6y ago
Stroke order is very important when writing kanji, for good reason: it helps memorize the characters and also makes them look well-balanced. Also, trying to read cursive Japanese or Chinese is a futile endeavor if you don't know the stroke order. So it's only natural the Japanese would impose a stroke order for latin letters as well.
I got a 100% on the test by systematically choosing the way most dissimilar to how I would write each letter.
- fomine3 6y agoStroke order for radicals (部首) is important, but IMO precise stroke order isn't so important (example: how to write "口").
- uranusjr 6y ago口 is a radical, so your argument is DOA.
- apricot 6y agoSome characters have more than one stroke order, and some characters are commonly written in a wrong order. I remember a Japanese TV program asking people on the street to write 馬 (horse), and making fun of people writing it in the wrong order. I guess it would be like a reporter asking people to spell "definitely" or "embarrassment" -- you're bound to get lots of wrong answers. But I disagree on 口, it just doesn't look right when you don't use the correct stroke order. It shouldn't be a perfect square or rectangle any more than the letter O should be written as a ge○metrically perfect circle or ellipse.