How to Count Strokes in Japanese Characters

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Tip 1 - How To Identify A Kanji That You Don't Know - Tofugu

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Jay Sil | permalink

You’re sitting there staring at this (probably ancient alien origin) kanji character, and you have no idea what it means. Like nada. Nothing. Zilch. No matter how deep your probe your brain nothing will come out. Congratulations. You have successfully failed at identifying a kanji. Don’t worry, though. It happens to the best of us. …

For further reading: http://www.tofugu.com/2012/09/04/how-to-identify-a-kanji-that-you-dont-know/ ^[1]

Tip 2 - How To Guess A Kanji's Stroke Order - Tofugu

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by xavier martinez | permalink

Although I’m not the type who believes you have to learn to write kanji by hand (who writes by hand nowadays?) there are plenty of people out there who have to do just that for one reason or another. Maybe your teacher is making you… maybe you’re just interested in writing kanji. Whatever. I’m writing …

For further reading: http://www.tofugu.com/guides/guess-kanji-stroke-order/ ^[2]