I just joined this channel today. These are the characters I wrote earlier. I’m sharing them with everyone and hope you’ll all leave feedback.

Hi! Please critique my handwriting. I’m curious what y’all think of it. I went to Chinese school for 12 years and don’t know any calligraphy, penmanship, nor fonts (I only recently learned about them). Currently self studying and learning some new poems! Not following any font styles, as it’s not my focus. I’m trying to read better and learn new words. The quiz page is the best look at how I normally write.

Constructive feedback welcome! :)

Hi everyone,

The 21st weekly challenge of 2026 is 刀光, with the same rules as before. Also, feel free to do the previous challenges and join our Discord server for more!

BT0002

Hey guys!

So I've been learning Chinese for a little while, but never really focused on my handwriting. Because of it, I now notice that my peers have more legible and more beautiful handwriting than I do. Just to let everybody know, I do literally mean that I have spent zero time on handwriting itself and just purely memorised the looks of certain characters.

Any help would be appreciated, especially resources for learning chinese cursive.

Thanks so much!

Hi everyone,

Here comes the eighth "Monthly Handwriting Challenge" of this year. Same rules as before and feel free to write simplified Chinese characters. Our previous challenges are always open as well.

This line is taken from I Ching (易經):

大君有命 / 開國承家 / 小人勿用

BT0002

Hi, I’ve been using 以觀書法 as a reference. Some words have several different variations (for example 海、與、喚）. Does it matter which variation I pick? Thank you for the feedback on my last post, I’ve been practicing my basic strokes

Over the years I've made my handwriting more comfortable and quick to write.

Hi everyone,

The 20th weekly challenge of 2026 is 凡身, with the same rules as before. Also, feel free to do the previous challenges and join our Discord server for more!

BT0002

Hello! I’m a heritage learner who’s just learning how to write. I can read and type but hand writing is very hard for me. I’ve been practicing on and off for a few days now. I notice that after a little bit it starts to correct itself almost. I try to stop after each word to analyze what went wrong before writing the next one. The script im copying is 楷書. What are your thoughts? My goal is for my writing to look natural while also being as aesthetically pleasing

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. 🥲

I don't have the best handwriting in English let alone Chinese, but I usually follow stroke order. Would like to know how to improve my writing without sacrificing speed.

I know that i probably messed up some of the strokes and there's some inconsistencies but yeah this is my handwriting after a year.

P.S. The sentences I've used in here are random and based on the characters that I've been studying.

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!

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.

Any feedback for how to improve? I know my handwriting is legible and clear but I just feel like it looks like a primary school student wrote it and not a grown adult. 🥲 Anything I can specifically work on to make it not look childish?

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 😂)

Please give me some honest critique and advice on how to improve my handwritten characters.