On this beautiful sunny day, I discovered that if I look up stroke order for the traditional character 肅 in three different places, I get three different results.
The Pleco mobile app seems to represent mainland China. Why does China have official guidelines for traditional characters, you ask? I know not. Singapore certainly doesn't. But China does.
@rakyat that's what Pleco did! And I think that's the China stroke order for simplified characters. I've heard that their traditional stroke order is similar to their traditional stroke order so it is nice to see an example of it.
@yingtai It’s a pretty complicated word and how it should be written isn’t really apparent/intuitive so I’m not surprised that there are multiple ways of writing it, haha.
@rakyat true! But the cool thing about this learning journey I've been on has been the realisation that even simple characters have different orders. Like 木 can be written with the shu first in cursive so the heng and pie and na can flow into each other.
@yingtai Yeah, I guess the rules are more like references/recommendations/best practices haha. As long as you can write the word in the end, it doesn’t really matter!
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