How to write France properly?

[LuckyTaikonaut]

I'm having a little problem. When writing France, how is the proper way to write fa3?

To illustrate I mspainted the two possibilities:

My chinese teacher write it like the right version and I have seen it as an subtitle once. The version on the left is used all the time in different fonts and I've seen it plenty times in movies and tv. Now here is the question: what is the right way?

Sorry for the crooked strokes. Mouse and chinese characters are not a perfect combination.

[Lu]

It's just a matter of fonts, it's essentially the same character. In the right version, the last dot of the 'three drops of water' is extended, so that it almost connects with the upper part of the character. But when you write it by hand, I think the left one is better.

Btw when writing this last dot you start at the lower left corner and then go up & right. Alternatively, you can first go right & down, then right & up, and the right & up part should be a bit longer than the right & down part. If you make it much longer, you get the right version of this character.

I hope this is all understandable... maybe you can ask your teacher to explain the difference, she can show how it's all written on the blackboard.

[geek_frappa]

Hello, LuckyTaikonaut, Welcome to the forums!!

Thanks for posting! ^^

It's just a matter of fonts, it's essentially the same character. In the right version, the last dot of the 'three drops of water' is extended, so that it almost connects with the upper part of the character. But when you write it by hand, I think the left one is better.

Btw when writing this last dot you start at the lower left corner and then go up & right. Alternatively, you can first go right & down, then right & up, and the right & up part should be a bit longer than the right & down part. If you make it much longer, you get the left version of this character.

follow Lu's advice and download a few more items:

1. You can get Chinese practice paper from here:

http://www.corgilabs.com/chinesepracticepaper/

2. You can get the workbook with stroke order here (the fa3 of france is on page 65 or 66.. ... )

http://www.corgilabs.com/chinesepracticepaper/duben_2002.pdf (~4MB)

good luck:wink:

[skylee]

Also take a look at the third column from the left ->

[LuckyTaikonaut]

Thanks for all your help.

[Weronika]

geek_frappa that book is so funny with the notes

[geek_frappa]

^^

[BFC_Peter]

skylee

can I ask where your grid came from? Is that something you wrote yourself or is it available online/elsewhere, as I find it very useful.

The only thing it's missing that is shown in geek_frappa's workbook is the direction of the strokes (I assume the number shows where the stroke starts?)

[skylee]

BFC_Peter, take a look -> http://www.chinese-forums.com/links/showlink.php?do=showdetails&l=220

[geek_frappa]

The only thing it's missing that is shown in geek_frappa's workbook is the direction of the strokes (I assume the number shows where the stroke starts?)

both are missing direction of strokes. use conventional stroke rules.

[Hero Doug]

I'm just going to provide another confirmation on what Lu said.

The left picture is typically used more for hand written materials, but the right one is used typically in printed materials. Ultimately their the same thing.

[atitarev]

法 animated:

Other characters:

http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/azi/azi.htm