When writing complicated characters like ying2, I basically think of it as its smaller parts, and just follow top/bottom - left/right to put it together. Most of the more complex characters look a lot harder to right than they really are, once you learn correct stroke order. [It's a lot harder to remember the sound and meaning lol]
16:16 I call that first variation "on a sled" because whatever the main / right side is, you always put it on the zouzhidi structure like you are getting ready to drag it away ... lol ... thanks for giving the correct name! Edit: Also the #6 with the middle first, I always think of that as top down because the middle stroke is the biggest / tallest, so it gets made first ... 🤷🤷♀I guess whatever is easy to remember...
As a foreigner who wants to learn Chinese, I find memorizing Hanzi to be able to hand-write them by myself is so difficult, do you have any tips and tricks how to memorize Hanzi? Like the word 警察, I can read or type it, but to hand-write is so hard, one day I remember, but the other day I either forget or remember just some parts of it. So frustrating 😭
One tip I used would be to break them down. Like 警 is 敬+言, you need to respect “敬” their warning "言“. For 察 the most important thing is to remember what's in the middle, like jigsaw puzzles, remember small parts and put them together. But it do takes time and practice. You can join my new free Community I will answer more questions and share more stuff there: discord.gg/j9DRVX53
