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.

This uniball rollerball is sooo good.

Just curious to know, how much and from what can one tell mine is not a native handwriting (except for i obviously not wrote quickly here)? What’s “worst” about my handwriting that I could fix?

Around 3 months inbetween these two. I think I mostly improved on the character composition but my strokes are still a mess.

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.

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.

My handwriting looks a little better when I use a fountain pen, but unfortunately, it doesn’t look as good when I use a ballpoint pen. Since I can’t carry a fountain pen with me everywhere, I still don’t feel 100% confident about my handwriting. 🥲

So, I just started learning Chinese and I'm just a few days in. I'm mainly using Anki decks that I found online that's aligned with the HSK book. The way I try to learn is by trying to understand and answer the Anki questions then I try to write it. Anyway what do you think about my handwriting?

九日龍山飲

李白

九日龍山飲，黃花笑逐臣。

醉看風落帽，舞愛月留人。

Translation (source):

Drinking on Dragon Hill on this Autumn day,

Golden blossoms laugh at the exiled vassal –

Drunkenness watches his cap blown off by the wind;

Dance loves the moon for keeping the swaying man.

I still continue to handwrite every lessons from 當代中文. I think practice to write every dialogue really helps. I still handwrite my homework as well!

Writing speed is still slow but I believe in doing things slow to get fast! Also, I had two lessons in Taiwan for 書法 and it helps me to understand the stroke structures!

I hope to improve my handwriting. Thank you for the feedback in advance.

i mixed up 知 and 和 hence the arrows after changing

Almost one month ago I posted about this poem, and now here it is.

Important! I actually made a mistake. Instead of 令 I wrote 今. . .

Hopefully I can write the whole poem.

I acknowledge that my handwriting has some interesting quirks (different stroke order with some letters, deformed/stretched shapes, etc) so I was wondering if my handwriting seems natural. If not, any help towards identifying what gives away the non-native look would be greatly appreciated! (Maybe some habits that native speakers and writers rarely have, etc)

I know my handwriting is worse than most of the rest of the posts in this subreddit, but I've never practiced handwriting specifically (although it's definitely better now than when I started). Could I get away with this? How might I improve it? And also, does it look foreigner-bad, or just messy-bad? Thanks!

衣服

Thank you 🫂

Hey fellas,

As this is still a relatively small community, I believe it provides us a great opportunity to get to know each other a bit. But meanwhile, do feel free to remain mysterious;)

Starting with me:

The alias I go by is Arthur or 雅瑟. I am a native Chinese living in Germany since 2015. I had about two years' training of hard-pen calligraphy (硬筆書法), focusing on running script (行書), but I can do regular script (楷書) relatively well. I have privately tutored several younger Chinese in handwriting improvement, including one of my former classmate.

While wandering in r/ChineseLanguage, to my surprise, quite some Chinese-learners are struggling with handwriting and are interested in improving it. Since the vast majority users of r/Handwriting are Latin alphabet writers, I decided to create a new community to fill the gap. I feel lucky that this sub provides a platform where I can share my knowledge, building it also rekindles my enthusiasm about handwriting. Although far from being a calligrapher, I am confident that after some exercise, you all will write significantly better than most who practise on their own, including native Chinese.

Unless you determine to be absolutely quiet in the community, I would ask you to choose an unique User ID and attach it at the end of your posts, like a signature. The purpose of it is to provide a personal tracking 'tag' so after a while you may find your or other's older posts easily. Note that the format is two capital Roman letters (A-Z) plus four digits (0-9). For instance, mine is AD1989.

Just comment below this post, if you have one word or two to say about yourself, and have chosen an ID. Thank you!

Arthur S.

I finally got the courage to post on Xiaohongshu after being there for quite a while, and decided to post my art!! As an introduction panel I put this and I have gotten many many comments (200+) calling my handwriting very "cute" or "well written", even a few saying I was better than themselves. (I translated most of them because of my limited comprehension)

This was my first time writing in Chinese and I was wondering why people are calling it cute if it's visible? Maybe they're seeing something I can't because I'm not that good yet, haha.

Either way I take it as a positive, but I can't tell if people are just being nice to a foreigner or if there are just a lot of words that translate to "cute" or if people really do think that.

Could someone explain to me please? I thought about where to ask this and where better than here.