Talk:Chinese (Mandarin)/Lesson 1/Stroke Order

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I was going over the lesson and I noticed an inconsistency between the characters displayed for numbered words in the lesson's list and the number given for those characters on the stroke order page. This seems to start with number 10 on the stroke order page.

Jay

I think it would be helpfull if this page had the readings of every character. As a user of this wiki book I find it annoying to have to go back and look at the lesson to find out what each character is.Ulfrinn 22:28, 7 August 2006 (utc)

It would be very helpful if the seemingly random numbers on the left were replaced with the pingyin for each character. Jacob GNAA

I am using the Wikibook and find the Stroke Order section very useful. But there is a problem, the stroke order figures do not correspond to the numbered Vocabulary list in the Wikibook anymore, starting at number 11. After detailed analyisis of the symbols and the stroke order table, I realized the character for Word #11 (to be named) is missing from the table, and is instead replaced by characters called (in the stroke order table) 11a and 11b, which are actually the characters for the 12th Word in the vocabulary list. I will correct this and try to get the numbers in the Stroke Order table to match the ones in the vocabulary list again. Reverse if I'm wrong and please explain me why. Edit: I will also correct the numbers 1a and 1b, since they're actually 1 and 1f (the second one is the character for singular femenine "you"), and add a brief explanation on top explaining what the letters in the numbered column mean, so as to make this table clearer for future readers (it took my a while to figure it out, although it is quite obvious). Edit 2: I have fixed it and finally, the Stroke Order Table and the Vocabulary list match perfectly once again. It seems the character for Word #11 had been inserted as #10 in the table. This was causing all the following ranks in the table to shift and not to match the list. This is fixed, I hope it makes things clearer for new readers. To everyone who is doing the images and stroke orders, thanks a lot and keep up the great work! David Haas

Edit 3: Once again there is something I want to correct in the table, but this time I need the support of someone who is fluent in Chinese (since I'm just a beginner). My doubt is about the "1" and "1f" characters in the table. After reading Lesson 1 of the Wikibook again, I got the impression that this differentiation between genders is made only in Traditional Chinese (since it is indicated in parentheses in the WikiBook). Would someone please clear this for me, so that I know whether the second character should be referenced to as "1f" or, more correctly, "1tf"? Thanks again! David Haas

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Maybe some could write also the pinyin and meaning next to each sign. W