# How to start learning handwriting...?

**URL:** https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-to-start-learning-handwriting/58633
**Category:** Japanese Language
**Created:** [September 19, 2022, 11:54pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-to-start-learning-handwriting/58633 "2022-09-19T23:54:42Z")
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### Author: ![fallynleaf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/fallynleaf/32/393300_2.png) [@fallynleaf](https://community.wanikani.com/u/fallynleaf)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-to-start-learning-handwriting/58633/6 "2022-09-20T00:32:56Z")

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I learned how to write kanji (or got started doing it, at least) by printing out these worksheets made by a WK user, which have the kanji ordered by WK level. Makes it really easy to practice writing kanji that you’ve already learned.

> [@Want to write Kanji?](https://community.wanikani.com/t/want-to-write-kanji/46079):
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> Hello Wanikani Community! wave I’m learning Japanese for almost 3 years. 2 years ago, when I was jobless for a few months, I started writing Kanji, according to the strokes. It was fun; it was interesting, it was engaging. After that, I got a job, moved to Tokyo. It was then when I was introduced to Wanikani. Wanikani said It’s the future, and everything is digital! I agreed because it’s true. expressionless I don’t write Kanji anywhere except when I’m filling the forms in offices. B…

By the time I’d learned how to write a few hundred kanji, stoke order came pretty easily to me, and I can now write most new kanji without having to look up stroke order charts, and am able to draw unknown kanji on the IME pad and get it to give me the kanji that I’m looking for 99% of the time.

Granted, I have not _memorized_ how to write very many kanji, just practiced a bunch, but I’ve gotten loads of additional practice writing the kanji I use in my textbook exercises. An app might be a better choice for testing your long-term memory, but I think those printable worksheets are a great way to learn initially.

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