Place your pen on the right-hand side of the page, in the top corner. Chinese writing goes from right to left.
Make a dot if the character includes one. The dot should ''flick'' rightward, so move your pen sharply to the right when making the dot.
Make the first horizontal stroke, beginning with the top stroke. Horizontal strokes are made from left to right. All the horizontal strokes should be made before the vertical strokes. If your symbol has a baseline, leave that until last.
Make the first vertical stroke, beginning with the farthest stroke to the left. Make vertical strokes from left to right until they are complete.
Add any small details, such as short, curved lines, working from left to right, beginning with the top left-hand corner and finishing in the bottom right.
Add lines to close any boxes on the character, beginning with the uppermost line. Some characters have a base stroke at the very bottom of the character. Base strokes must be made last.
