To master the hieroglyphic writing will help the study of the strict order of writing traits in the hieroglyph. You should also pay attention to calligraphy, because it is in this art that all the features of the outline of hieroglyphic signs are revealed.
Calligraphy art
To master the hieroglyphic writing, the study of calligraphy will help. It represents a whole science in the beautiful and correct spelling of signs, and is also equated with art. In oriental languages, where there is hieroglyphic writing, calligraphy is more important than in European languages.
Calligraphy requires special tools. In most cases, the set consists of brushes, ink or ink, special paper. For beginners, you can use regular paint brushes and regular ink, as well as thick paper such as A3 sheets.
While drawing the signs, the brush is held vertically in the hand, you need to make sure that it does not deviate to the sides. This uses the middle finger, index finger and thumb.
If there is no time for calligraphy classes, but you need to master the writing of hieroglyphs, then the signs can be displayed in the copybooks. You can make them yourself. To do this, you need to take a notebook in a cage, lining the sheets so that each sign is inscribed strictly in four cells.
General rules for writing hieroglyphs
Each hieroglyph consists of horizontal and vertical lines, which have a strict writing sequence. In many hieroglyphs, you can see lines that look more like smeared dots, located next to the rest of the lines that form the pattern. These are the traits that are written first. All horizontal lines are drawn behind them, after oblique and others. Vertical bars complete the writing of the hieroglyph.
Another rule is that all elements of the hieroglyph are written from left to right, top to bottom, from edge to center.
The writing rules for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters are largely the same, as calligraphy and hieroglyphic writing were adopted by the Japanese and Koreans from China.
In order to learn hieroglyphic writing, you should start with the hieroglyphs that contain the least number of features. Typically, these characters contain only horizontal and vertical lines, which makes writing easier. When studying Chinese writing, textbooks are used, in which the description of hieroglyphs is in increasing complexity.
Also in the Chinese language there are special keys for writing hieroglyphs. They represent individual elements or simple hieroglyphs that are part of complex ones. There are 214 of them. They make it easier to memorize the hieroglyph itself, as well as how to write it correctly.
If we are talking about Japanese characters, then it is worth starting with a list of signs approved by the Ministry of Japan. There are about two thousand of them in total, all of them are studied by the Japanese at school and make up the minimum required to live and work in Japan. First, hieroglyphs are simple to write, then more and more complicated. For example, the first character in this list is the number "1" and it looks like a single horizontal line.
In addition to the order of drawing traits, much attention is paid to how exactly one or another trait is drawn. For example, a horizontal line in Chinese writing is written like this: when the brush touches the paper, you need to make a little pressure, then slightly down and lead from left to right. In the middle of the line, the pressure decreases, so the line becomes thinner. At the end of the line, as at the beginning, the pressure increases.
