Chinese Handwriting Paper

daynah
 July 23, 2008, 01:27 PM posted in General Discussion

 I picked up some handwriting paper in Atlanta's sorta Chinatown. I wanna use it to help me keep my radicals actually apart of the character. I open the book up to start practicing and I realize I have no clue how to use this. There's three horizontal lines, and then a row of squares (like the game Four Square), and then another three lines and it continues alternating like that. Do I write the characters on the horizontal lines or on the squares?

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user76423
 July 23, 2008, 02:30 PM

You write the characters in the squares.

If you need chinese character practice sheets: you can generate (PDF) these via this link.

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frances
 July 23, 2008, 03:03 PM

The idea is that each handwritten character should be about the same size and shape, and the squares help you to practice that. Obviously, there are exceptions, as 一 will never look very square shaped.

I've been looking for some of that paper, but I don't live near a Chinatown. Does anyone know if there are any online U.S. stores selling it? Most of the big box office stores don't have any.

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joannah
 July 23, 2008, 10:24 PM

You should be able to buy standard graph paper in most office supplies stores. That might work OK.

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man2toe
 July 23, 2008, 10:33 PM

Hape,

That is an awesome PDF generator.  Not being fluent in German it threw me for a bit, nevertheless it is extremely useful.  Thank you for sharing.

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xiaohu
 July 30, 2008, 01:38 AM

Daynah,

Most Chinatowns have plenty of places to buy paper for writing characters, and it's CHEAP, just a couple bucks worth will keep you busy for months!