Writing 1.1 Hiragana Chart Stroke Order
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Writing 1.1 Hiragana Chart Stroke Order
THE ALL IMPORTANT STROKE ORDER
It is the order in which you make the lines (or strokes) to write your character.
Most commonly, characters are written with the strokes starting from left to right and from top to bottom.
Most commonly, characters are written with the strokes starting from left to right and from top to bottom.
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The stroke order of a Japanese character (Hiragana, Katakana or Kanji) is very important.
Traditional Japanese is written from the top of a page to the bottom of a page, starting on the right side of the paper and then moving to the left. This is completely different from how we write in English!
If you are writing from top to bottom and you finish your character at the bottom, it is then very simple to move on and start writing the next character underneath it.
This was especially useful in the olden times when people wrote with calligraphy paint brushes. Imagine if you wrote your stroke order from bottom to top and then you had to move down to the next character below. You would drip ink all over the character you had just written!
If you don't follow the correct stroke order when writing your characters, the "balance" of your character will not look right.
Traditional Japanese is written from the top of a page to the bottom of a page, starting on the right side of the paper and then moving to the left. This is completely different from how we write in English!
If you are writing from top to bottom and you finish your character at the bottom, it is then very simple to move on and start writing the next character underneath it.
This was especially useful in the olden times when people wrote with calligraphy paint brushes. Imagine if you wrote your stroke order from bottom to top and then you had to move down to the next character below. You would drip ink all over the character you had just written!
If you don't follow the correct stroke order when writing your characters, the "balance" of your character will not look right.
HIRAGANA STROKE ORDER
Here is a diagram of the entire Hiragana chart stroke orders. On the next page, we will see the stroke order of the characters in action, but for now, look at this chart and imagine yourself writing these characters with a paint brush and charcoal ink, doing the Japanese art of "SHODOU" (calligraphy). You would be writing from top to bottom on a page, so you can see how important it is to use the correct stroke order.
This chart is courtesy of Koichi Sensei from
http://www.textfugu.com/resources/hiragana-chart/.