
Chinese: 
在学习汉字的时候，我遇到了太多太多困难、讨厌、疯狂、荒谬的事了
在学习汉字的时候，我遇到了太多太多困难、讨厌、疯狂、荒谬的事了
是的我之前说过一些，现在再说一个新的
如果你想要读懂或者写出汉语和日语的一个基本的句子
或者你出于某种原因对中古韩国及古代越南很感兴趣
你需要一个接一个地学习这些方块字
所以我开始学习汉字，在我学了上百字之后，我感觉我有点入门了
接着我开始学习（这些汉字）不同的读音、不同的含义、以及不同的系统
还有一堆子系统…… 学的时候我感觉我被汉字大魔头先在现在脸上打一拳
肚子一拳
接着又是脸上一拳
对就是这么惨……
接着汉字大魔头突然使出致命一击
打得我几乎要GG
那个致命一击就是：每个汉字的笔画笔顺！
刚开始觉得蛮简单的
他们教了我几个只有3、4笔画的简单汉字
以及他们的笔画笔顺
所以……第一画？

English: 
There are so many tough, frustrating, crazy,
ridiculous things about learning Chinese characters
and Japanese kanji.
I know I've already shared some, but just
one more.
Before you can even read or write a basic
sentence in Mandarin or Japanese, or if for
some reason you just want to get crazy into
Medieval Korean or old Vietnamese, you need
to know symbol after symbol.
So when I set out to learn symbol after hundreds
of symbols, I already knew I was in for it.
And then when I learned about the different
pronunciations, the meanings, the systems
and the subsystems within the characters,
it just threw me a kanji punch to the face.
And then the gut.
And then the face again.
Just for good measure.
But I was really caught off guard by a killer
Han character blow that almost knocked me
right out.
And that killer blow was all about the way
you have to write each character.
It started innocently enough.
They taught me a handful of easy characters
and how to write the three or four strokes
in each.
So, stroke 1?

Chinese: 
错！错！错啦！
第一画。
这回对了
第二画。
又错了！！！
这才是第二画
好吧
第三画。
哎哟不错哦
然后第四画
就像我的老师过去经常说的一样，“几乎完成了”
恭喜！
你写出了“日”字！恭喜你成为书法家！
来看下一个
第一画……就跟刚才一样
第二画… 额等等，这也是跟刚才一样，横折？
嗯对就是这样
第三画
错！
好吧
那，第三画
第四画
第五画
好的，所以看起来这有一些规律。
这时候我心想这只是他们的一种好的书写技巧
每个字都按照着一定编号的顺序进行书写
但并没有那么简单
它不像西方书法那样仅仅是为了提升字的美观程度

English: 
No, no, wrong!
Stroke 1.
Ok.
Stroke 2.
No, no, no!
This is stroke two.
Ok.
Stroke three.
Good, you’re getting it!
And stroke four.
As my sensei used to say, "Almost okay."
Congratulations!
You just wrote the character for "day", you're
an honorary calligrapher!
On to the next one.
One… just like before.
Two… oh wait, that goes over and down again?
Yeah, there it is!
Three.
Nope!
Ok, fine.
Uh, three.
Four.
Five.
Ok, there’s kind of a pattern here.
At this point I'm starting to think it’s
just their form of good penmanship.
Sure it’s all numberly and orderly and sequential,
but I’m game.
And what a game it is.
This is not just good writing like in Western
calligraphy.

English: 
As I go along, I learn that this is actually
a basic part of writing the characters.
If you don’t know the stroke orders, you
just plain don’t know how to write.
That’s it.
So, like, this one followed by this one followed
by this one to make a box.
That's the right way to do it.
This one goes up, not down.
This one has a swooshy tail.
Make these lines before these ones but then
do these other ones after this part.
This character has 6 strokes, not 4.
And this character has 20 strokes, not 21.
Don’t mess any of these up, alright?
We are watching you!
Fortunately, I think to myself, Hey, Self!
I’ve already spotted some patterns!
I test those patterns out, and, what a relief.
I end up getting good mileage out of some
of them.
It got to the point where, once, I saw this.
But then soon, I saw… this.
After training, young one, you can see it,
too.
But there was more beneath the surface.
For one thing (and you had to see this coming)
patterns can change.

Chinese: 
经过学习我发现，它其实是汉字书写中最基础的部分
如果你不知道笔画笔顺，你就根本不知道这字咋写
就是酱紫。
所以比如，这样、再这样、最后这样，写出一个“口”字
这才是正确的写法
这一画应该往上写，而不是向下
这一画有个往上的小勾
这些笔画应该在这些笔画之前，但其他笔画得在这个（走之底）之后
这个字有6画，而不是4画
然后这个字有20画，而不是21画
别把这些弄乱了哦！
我们都在看着你！
幸运的是，我心里想：嘿，我自己
...我已经发现了一些规律
运用这些规律，感觉好轻松啊
我取得了不小的进步
接着有一次，我看到了这个（字）
接着，我看到了……这个（字的写法）
于是我就不停练习……练习……你懂得。。
接着问题又来了
有一件事你必须知道，那就是这些规律可能发生变化

English: 
The left-side downstroke plus right-side right-plus-downstroke
starter combo played like a drumbeat in my
head, leaving me with a false sense of security,
so I fell victim to characters that split
and reordered those same angles.
Oh, song, you are a beautiful melody but you
are a nasty character.
And even when rote formulas worked for one
character, they broke when more strokes were
thrown into the mix.
Remember that rice paddy from earlier?
It gets written one way on its own but another
way as part of the character for "hometown".
And in China that’s not even the right rice
paddy.
They switch these two strokes.
If you're in China, don't mix them up.
So, yes, stroke orders can change for the
same character in different combinations.
And, yes, stroke orders for the same character
can differ between China and Japan.
It might not be the order of the strokes that
changes, either.
The first time I noticed this was character
for "equipment".
Its big line gets attached in China.
And the one for "copy" had a roof but is missing
the normal top dot that every other roof I
was familiar with has!

Chinese: 
左边一竖右边横折再加底下一横的组合给我留下了深刻印象
它给我一种虚假的安全感，因此，我被那种拆分重组各种复杂的汉字
折磨得不行
哎，“歌”字，你的旋律是多么优美，但你真是个讨厌的汉字
而且，一种书写“公式”或许适用于某一个汉字，但如果加进更多的笔画，
这种规律就不适用了。
记得刚刚说的这个“田”字吗？
它单独出现和出现在别的汉字里，笔画笔顺是不一样的
而且在中国，笔画顺序甚至也不一样
中国人一般这两画的顺序是相反的
所以如果你在中国，别弄混了哦
所以是的。同一个结构的笔画笔顺在不同汉字里是会变化的
并且使得，同一个汉字的笔画笔顺在中国和日本也各不相同
两国不同的可不只是笔画顺序
我第一次发现这个问题，是注意到“具”这个字
在中国大横线和上部是相接的
而且“写”这个字有“宝盖头”，但这个“宝盖头”不像其他我熟悉的汉字那样，
上面没有那个点

English: 
And there’s a newer way to write this character
and an older way.
In Japan, there are new characters with fewer
strokes and older characters with more strokes.
And in China, there are simplified characters
that often have a lot fewer strokes.
But the fewer-stroke characters in China aren’t
the same ones you’ll find in Japan.
So even the patterns I thought I was seeing
before turned out not to be
hard and fast rules.
But, keen observer that you are, maybe you
can step back and notice something that
I didn’t.
These are all straight-line stroke patterns.
It’s just the direction and the order we’re
squabbling over here.
And that’s true, until you meet cursive
scripts and other ways of writing the characters
that have whimsical swishes and circles.
It’s a lot to take in.
But it’s important.
There is a right way and there is a wrong way, and people will notice if you
write the wrong way.
But, you know what?
Millions upon millions of humans learn to
write this way.
Ridiculous, yes.
But I never said it was impossible.
What do you think?
Lay it on me in the comments and stick around
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Chinese: 
而且，这个字的新式写法是酱紫的 
旧版则是这样
在日本，新式字体有着较少笔画，而古体字有较多笔画
在中国，简体字的笔画一般会少得多
但中国与日本对同一个字的简化方式不一样
所以我直接发现的那些规律甚至
并不太靠谱
但是，机智如你，也许你能回头注意到什么
我没注意到的规律
这些就是所有最直接的笔画笔顺规律
这只是我们刚刚在激烈争论的书写方向和顺序罢了
而且当你看到草书和其他书写方法
就是这样有着乱七八糟的线条和圆圈的字体时
那就有更多要学的东西了！
但这是非常重要的
写一个字有正确的方式，也有错误的方式。如果你把它写错了
他们一定会发现的
但是你造吗？
上亿的人们都在学习这些汉字的写法
你说这很荒谬？也许吧，。
我也没说这是不可能的
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