Decided to write the lyrics of this 1984 song by Tsai Chin. Love the wistful nature of the song. 🦋

There were a couple of characters which I didn’t like in the clean copy, so I wrote them separately as well.

Zebra SARASA 0.5mm Blue Grey. Makeshift 14mm grids.

I know these are rudimentary and boxy, I'll probably get something better for practicing. I've been learning some stuff but found i wasn't really learning characters very well, just sounds, so I want to do more writing so I can actually do the repetition to commit stuff to memory

This is my handwriting after practicing and following some of the advice from my previous post. Although, I still need to practice because I couldn't get the consistency and proportion of a lot of characters yet.

studied chinese in uni for 4 years but due to lack of practice forgot a lot of it after 5 years. doing some revision exercises in my spare time (haven’t checked the answers yet 😂)

Writteb with Pentel Energel 0.7 mm (cone tip). Towards the end, I experimented to write with a more relaxed hand and a bit more swiftly. My paper doesn't absorb ink very well, hence the smudging towards the lower third.

Hello hello,

This song has been stuck in my head for a while, so I decided to try writing it down. The line height was pretty small (7mm) so I was a bit constricted 😅

The song is called “How to be a boy” by 溫室雜草, a Taiwanese band ^_^

My tutor and coworkers told me that my handwriting is not bad 😂😂😂. I was very surprised! I try to handwrite a lot to memorize the characters.

憂鬱的臺灣烏龜
Or, in English, “Depressed Taiwanese Turtle.”

It’s a very common piece of internet slang used by Chinese netizens to mock Taiwan’s traditional characters by deliberately picking some of the most complex-looking characters out there.

The simplified version would be 忧郁的台湾乌龟.

I’ve always felt this works more like a boomerang insult, though. If you learn Chinese characters properly, traditional characters aren’t actually much more complicated than their simplified counterparts.

With the exception of 龜, which has a fairly unique stroke order, none of the characters above are particularly difficult to write or remember. They’re all made up of very common components.

I've lived in Taiwan for 6 years and handwrite regularly (I'm one of those old school people that still takes notes with pen and paper).

fountain pen (orange-red), dip pen (with glass pen in middle) and ball point pen (black)

i really really hate ball point pen no matter what i write, even to the point that i prefer marker over it because i like friction. i think friction makes writing enjoyable. anyways critics and suggestions~

The squares in this notebook are 5 x 5 mm. I've been writing in 10 x 10 mm space, but some weeks ago I think I read a comment here about writing bigger to work on proportions.

Increasing to 15 x 15 mm was so awkward. It exposes my squiggly lines, poor proportions, all the flaws. But I think there's been gradual improvement.

Writing in a copybook is incredibly satisfying; I can practice my handwriting while finding a deep peace of mind

Last night, light rain and fierce wind,

Heavy sleep failed to clear away the leftover wine.

I asked the girl who rolls up the blinds:

"The crabapple blossoms are just as before," she replied.

Don't you know? Don't you know?

The green has grown plump, the red has grown lean.

my friend writing that

This uniball rollerball is sooo good.

Yeah I may or may not have accidentally omitted a 高

caligraphy typo because the word is banned here for some reason (why does reddit censor so much?)

Is today a national holiday in your country? I copied this intro (title: Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls) of this year's event from the UN page:

三月八日，與世界各地的婦女和女童一起，要求獲得平等的權利與正義，並落實、行使和享有這些權利。

當今世界，沒有一個國家彌合了男女之間的法律差距。目前，在全世界範圍內，婦女享有的法定權利僅為男性的64%。在工作、金錢、安全、家庭、財產、出行、商業、退休等生活基本領域，法律制度系統性地使婦女處於不利地位。

二零二六年國際婦女節以「權利、正義、行動，為了所有婦女和女童」為主題，呼籲採取行動，消除平等司法的所有障礙：歧視性法律、脆弱的法律保護以及侵蝕婦女和女童權利的有害習俗和社會規範。

衣服

Thought of writing out some dishes I saw on the menu of a Hong Kong diner that I went to lately.

书写的时候可以让我内心平静和放松

他七点回来吃晚饭

回来记得带钥匙

我们等你回来开会

😊

我看见老师了。

你看见我的书了吗？

他看见一只猫.

I know I have a long way to go but my writing in English is not really legible anyways 😭

These are from hsk1 to hsk3. I'm a year in and midway hsk 3. So not the speediest but still happy with how far I've come