Regular Script Graphemics by Harvey Dam

Author:Harvey Dam [Dam, Harvey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Chinese, Educational, Handwriting, Language, Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9780692128534
Google: bcX9twEACAAJ
Publisher: Harvey Dam
Published: 2008-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

必

Observe the following 必 and take a guess at the stroke order, unless you know already:

Before I reveal the stroke order, let’s address the new stroke. ㇃ is called 扁斜鉤 (biǎnxiégōu). It starts kind of like a 丶 and ends kind of like a ㇂, except the hook usually points to the upper left, sometimes straight up, and never to the right. Should be pretty easy.

All right, got a guess for the stroke order? Here it is:

This is the original regular script stroke order. Less common is, using the numbers shown, 3-1-2-4-5, which is standard in Japan. Either way, it’s unlikely that someone can deduce the stroke order just by looking at it, so this was a likely candidate to have its stroke order changed by standardization. Because 必 looks kind of like 心, the standardization entities of mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan prescribe 必 to be written like 心. Hong Kong and Taiwan prescribe writing a 心 and adding a ノ (4-2-3-5-1). Mainland China prescribes writing three-fourths of a 心, inserting a ノ, and then writing the last dot (4-3-2-1-5). Such changes were likely because language users don’t care about etymology, and language features that are similar often merge to become indistinguishable. In all standard typefaces, a 必 is indeed a 心 with a ノ through it.

When 必 has something under it, as in 密, then the ㇃ often changes to a ㇏, and the second stroke order is used.

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