Do you know why most hiragana start writing in the upper left and finish in the lower right? 

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And before the comments start, yes that was based on exposure to modern Latin and Sino-japanese scripts. I'm well aware Arabic, Hebrew, Ancient Egyptian, and numerous right-to-left scripts exist.

「左利きで右から左に書く」ではなく「左利きで左から右に書く」ですよね？　押して書くんだから。 　 自分も左利きなので、それよく分かります。 特に習字の時、筆で左から右に線を押すように書くと、筆先がつぶれてしまうので書きにくい😭 ひらがなや漢字を始め、世界中の大半の文字は、右手で書くことを前提に作られてると思います。 一度右利きの人に、横線を右から左に書いてほしい。いかに書きにくいか😓

@@venus_and_pluto 訂正ありがとうございます ボールペンや万年筆なら左で使いやすいものも探せばあるけど、筆は本当にどうしようもないですね

何かで見た事があるのですが、そもそも昔は横書きという概念がなく、あれは"1行が1文字の縦書き"だそうです。 本当に合ってるかどうかは保証しませんが。

The "ha" comes from 今日は, although truthfully a lot of people do write it as こんにちわ. It is sort of like grammar nitpicking in English to point out that the second way isn't correct.

As a Chinese speaker, I can confirm that most Chinese characters are written in a similar order, from top left to bottom right.

@@2520WasTaken thanks

when i took japanese class before, it seems our teacher taught as to write kanji from top right to bottom left stroke tho, instead of how i was taught to write chinese characters top left to bottom right before in chinese class

​@@xXxSkyViperxXx so in what order do you write something like 林檎

@@2520WasTaken if per my JSP1 class during college before, the order would be top right to bottom left for each kanji, but if per my chinese classes during my preschool to highschool before, chinese characters were usually written top left to bottom right. all these were written horizontally, but in my country, there do exist old traditional schools too that still write them vertically with the lines going right to left, then there are still temples and cemeteries that usually write them both horizontally and vertically with right to left order. and, i'm not from nor ever lived in a country that traditionally is considered part of sinosphere.

no

@@user-pn2qq2sq3n if it was horizontal left to right, it could still connect from the lower right to the next character's upper left