Re: Kanji stroke direction

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 02:26:42 +0000, Bart Mathias wrote:

>> 1st stroke of ヒ
> Nowadays, left to right. But I for one write the equivalent stroke in
> 化 right down to left.

In which case ヒ would be the only kanji with irregular stroke direction
I've seen. I can't find ヒ itself on the MIT video reference, but when
part of other kanji it is always right to left, unless it is compressed as
in the left part of 比, in which case it is left to right. I won't
consider the compressed version irregular because I'll simply consider it
an entirely new element "squashed spoon" - this actually makes the
mnemonics easier.

What's the official government standard for ヒ?

> Probably, but they don't come to mind at the moment. Did you see the
> recent discussion of stroke *order* differences between, say, 右 and 有
> on the one hand and 左 and 友 on the other? (The first two are
> downstroke first, the other two horizontal first.)

Heisig mentions stroke order for the first 3, and I haven't come across
友 yet. He does not mention stroke order for 布, which to me looks like
downstroke first.
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwhalsod.cgi?2973_%C9%DB
agrees.
.

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