lokki 21 Report post Posted November 12, 2008 I came across this when I was having a closer look at the characters for 纽约 New York. I wasn't sure about the stroke order of 丑 which appears there as the right-hand part of 纽. I usually consult the following website for stroke orders: http://www.chinese-learner.com/write-chinese/write-chinese-stroke-order-dictionary.php ... and it gave the following order for 丑 (and 纽) : 1: upper-horizontal-right-hand-vertical stroke 2: left-hand-vertical stroke 3: middle-horizontal stroke 4: bottom-horizontal stroke I thought it felt funny somehow to write 2 before 3, and checked with a software I have (Pablo), and sure enough, there 2 and 3 were the other way around. To me it looks like the website is wrong. Can anyone confirm this? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HashiriKata 16 Report post Posted November 12, 2008 To me it looks like the website is wrong. Can anyone confirm this? I don't think so. Due to different ways of seeing how the character comes about, there are variations in the stroke-order for the character. Take the variation which feels more natural to you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
randall_flagg 12 Report post Posted November 12, 2008 Thanks for pointing that out! Turns out I've been writing this character wrong all along, just feels better that way! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
querido 320 Report post Posted November 12, 2008 Wenlin agrees with the order as numbered by the original poster. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lu 3,171 Report post Posted November 12, 2008 I'd also write it 1-3-2-4, it feels more natural. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hofmann 682 Report post Posted November 12, 2008 I agree with chinese-learner.com. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Danmairen 10 Report post Posted November 12, 2008 As I see it, the character is finished with 土, so the middle horizontal stroke should be written before the vertical, and the webside is wrong:roll: Rune Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HerrPetersen 48 Report post Posted November 12, 2008 I write it in the same order as in 五. (almost - I break stroke number 3 up in to 2 strokes) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hofmann 682 Report post Posted November 12, 2008 Are you extending the middle horizontal stroke past the first stroke? By the way, I prefer this site's stroke order, which matches chinese-learner.com for 丑. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skylee 1,912 Report post Posted November 13, 2008 For me the order listed in post #1 (which is the same as in Hofmann's posts) is correct. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trevelyan 30 Report post Posted November 14, 2008 I don't think it really matters as long as the character gets written, but I was also taught the order according in the original post #1, with the order of precedence generally being top to bottom, left to right. 无 is the same. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lokki 21 Report post Posted November 14, 2008 I was also taught the order according in the original post #1, with the order of precedence generally being top to bottom, left to right. 无 is the same. This really confuses me. When you say that 无 is the same as post #1, are you saying that you write the (left-slanting) vertical stroke of 无 _before_ the middle horizontal one, in the same way that the vertical comes before horizontal of 丑 in the original post? Both the softwares mentioned above certainly disagree with that stroke order for 无. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tommi 11 Report post Posted November 15, 2008 I agree with this sites order: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/popup_animation_strokes.php?uvd=19985 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hofmann 682 Report post Posted November 15, 2008 More like 冄 in 那 and less like 无 I find it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites