I just started learning Chinese and the hanzi is the hardest part for me. My handwriting is terrible. It is a little discouraging honestly but I’m going to keep practicing because that is the only way to get better. But I was curious to know how long it took anyone here to get better, especially if they started from nothing.

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.

Would also like to ask if my foundation in kaiti is strong enough to start practicing xingshu and how I can quickly learn appropriate proportions without having to look up the character everytime

edit: I need to work on spacing and how my lines are tilting 😶

Have been learning for a little over two years. I’d eventually like to write in running cursive script but want to be able to master regular script first.

Any tips on how to improve my handwriting would be much appreciated.

Hi everyone,

The 19th weekly challenge of 2026 is 男式, with the same rules as before. Also, feel free to do the previous challenges and join our Discord server for more!

BT0002

Hi everyone,

Here comes the seventh "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):

鳥焚其巢 / 旅人先笑後號咷

BT0002

Hi guys, I've been learning Chinese for a year or so.

I write a lot in Chinese so hopefully the baseline isn't too bad.

All the Chinese people I know say my handwriting is pretty but after looking at the stuff here its definitely lacking a lot.

The first pic is my writing before looking at the advice here and the second pic is the after.

I KNOW I use a little square journal and thats not ideal but, so far I have not found anything that both has a nice grid to write on and is portable enough to make study notes.

I feel my main area for improvement is to be more flowy and relaxed when writing and also getting the angles and lines better proportioned.

Also 茉莉花 just dosent look right.

What do you guys think any suggestions welcome! 😊