Stroke order - hitsujun

Japanese: 筆順 - ひつじゅん
Stroke order - hitsujun

The order in which the strokes of a character are written. This mainly applies to kanji and kana. Kanji characters have many complex strokes, so the stroke order is an issue, but they were originally written to be easily tidy with a brush, and some characters, such as "必", "飛", and "馬", are widely recognized to have more than two stroke orders. There are two major principles: "from top to bottom" and "from left to right", but there are exceptions. The origin of the character is generally irrelevant, but the stroke order for "na" in "右" and "有" is written with "丿" first because it was originally a variation of "又". Regular script and semi-cursive script often have the same stroke order, but cursive scripts such as "書" and "年" may differ. Katakana characters are derived from kanji, so the stroke order is the same as kanji, but some have changed in later generations, such as "メ" (the last two strokes of "女") and "ヨ" (the last stroke of "与"). Hard pens (fountain pens, pencils, ballpoint pens, etc.) can be used more freely than calligraphy brushes, so the stroke order is often disrupted, but writing "o-zato/ko-zato" starting with "|" or "wo" starting with "fu" should be corrected.

[Yutaka Tsukishima]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

文字の字画を書く順序。おもに漢字、仮名についていう。漢字には字画の複雑なものが多いために、筆順が問題になるが、本来毛筆で容易に整った字体を書くためのものであり、「必」「飛」「馬」のように2通り以上の筆順が広く認められている文字もある。「上から下へ」「左から右へ」の二大原則があるが、例外も存する。字源は一般に関係ないが、「右」「有」などの「ナ」の筆順が「丿」を先に書くのは、もと「又」からの変形だからである。楷書(かいしょ)と行書(ぎょうしょ)は同じ筆順であることが多いが、「書」「年」など草書(そうしょ)は異なる場合がある。片仮名は漢字から出た字だから、その筆順は漢字に準ずるが、「メ」(「女」の終二画)や「ヨ」(「与」の終画)のように、後世変わったものもある。硬筆(万年筆、鉛筆、ボールペンなど)は毛筆よりも運用が自由だから、筆順の乱れることが多いが、「おおざと・こざと」を「|」から書いたり、「ヲ」を「フ」から書いたりするのは、矯正すべきであろう。

[築島 裕]

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