Hi all,

Just for curiosities sake...I was wondering if there are marked differences between the stroke order of Chinese and Japanese. Out of boredom, I thought I would have a go at the Skritter Japanese app and I found that the way I write 田 is different than the "field" kanji character (i.e. the middle vertical stroke comes before the middle horizontal strike).

Does this happen across a lot of the characters? Not an urgent question by any means, but just something I was interested in.

Cheers,
Joe

Hi,

I have not studied Japanese at all but I've read that there are differences (between simplified and traditonal as well and regional standards, etc.), see for example this blog posts:

http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2008/08/19/variable-stroke-order-in-chinese-characters

Thanks a lot for your reply Xiaokaka! That was a very interesting piece by John P.

Stroke order is different, and there are some variations in style of how some characters are written (of those that are used in both Chinese/Japanese), for instance the direction of the 6th stroke in the ⺮ radical, like in 等 or 箸, or the hook/lack of hook in 茶, the 糸 radical, etc).

The latter is only a Skritter thing though, e.g. both hooked and unhooked variantions of 茶, 糸 etc. are common in both Chinese and Japanese.