I’ve been studying kanji for 3 months now and i know 600 kanji so far thanks to kanji koohi but i’ve never written any kanji until now, i decided to write some kanji and have my srs keyword to kanji instead of kanji to keyword, my question is when u guys see the keyword, do you write the kanji or do u like guess what it looks like through ur imagination? I find it weird since i used kanji to keyword and when a kanji pops up i just guess the keyword.
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I would draw the kanji in the palm of my hand with my finger when attempting to recall the kanji from the keyword.
This is my process: recall the story, visualise the kanji, handwrite the kanji. The second-step is “unsanctioned”; it helps me but I don’t recall many others doing this.
Japanese people use a pencil and paper to handwrite the kanji. One can use plain paper or paper made for practice. The squares are printed in light-blue ink; newer students might have bigger squares split into quarters and older students have smaller squares. Typical pencil size is 0.5mm although a wooden pencil is fine too. Using a pen or tablet provides less physical feedback, which some argue may be important.
Before an exam or in a pinch, my Chinese friends wrote the kanji with a finger on the other palm. I like this technique too.
The stroke order is important. That helps memory & aesthetics. There are just a few basic rules so this becomes second nature after a few weeks. Latin-script alphabets also look terrible if we use the wrong stroke order.
I write it on paper.
first question you have to answer is “do I want to write”
writing comes up a lot here and some people say “you need to write to function as an independent adult in Japan” and that’s true
but also there is “I just want to read Japanese books” and then it’s like, you don’t need to write
so think about what you want to do with Japanese because NGL writing takes a huge chunk of time