We start with the dot and another dot here, and remember we want to cover what's under this roof; within this roof. So this goes enough length so that it can cover what's the content...
So, here we are going to talk about dot, dian, okay. In Pinyin the pronunciation is like this, dian, dian, and in Chinese it writes dian. And in traditional Chinese it's a little bit more...
So another design element is that there are sometimes strokes that cross at the center in different ways. Like this character center, so we divide the opening into two parts by this vertical stroke....
And then the dot from a appropriate place in this total empty space, to fill in that empty space. So that's fang also means house. And let's have another example; so P is that or he....
Okay, besides huizhi grid, we have this grid that kind of with equally divided four squares and then the diagonal division lines, it will be very helpful to write strokes like left stand, right stand...
We talked about the distribution of the strokes and then variety and then here we're going to talk about the center or the weight of a character. Sometimes it, it's quite natural for...

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Okay, now we are going to talk about some principles in the design of characters. And there are sometimes less strokes, sometimes more strokes in a Chinese character. And so to give you a reference of...
And see where I should start. I don't want to go all the way up to the top touching the edge of the grid; so I start somewhere in the upper center, down and then to the left and then to the...

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Chinese writing is very different from most other languages in the world. In the Chinese writing system, Chinese symbols represent each character which corresponds to a single spoken syllable. A...

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The next character is "xian" and all this it's just a "surname" a "Chinese surname", "xian" so there is a very famous...