Lesson 9 Writing Chinese Characters ¨C
Writing orders
For a
character, the order of writing is normally from top to
bottom, from left to right, and from outside to inside.
top to bottom:
1. Èý
s¨¡n
three
2. ÖÚ
zh¨°ng
crowd
left to right:
3. ÈÊ
r¨¦n
mercy
4. Àñ
l¨«
courtesy
outside
to inside:
*Please
notice the bottom horizontal line is always the last stroke
in this structure.
5. ¹ú
gu¨®
country
6. Çô
qi¨²
prisoner
In a
paragraph, modern Chinese is written the same way as
English, where you write from left to right in each line
horizontal and from top to bottom vertically. Ancient
Chinese, however, is written in vertical lines and lines are
arranged from right to left.
