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Aargh! Please help with *wind* - KBurchfiel - 2013-05-01
Hi everyone, I'm having a lot of trouble with the *wind* primitive in review. Specifically, there are times where the final stroke hooks sharply at the end, such as in "wear at the waist" and "wind" itself. But then there are other times, such as "ordinary," in which the final stroke is curvier and more gentle, kind of like the hook in *fishhook*. It seems that I always guess wrong -- but that I have to guess is in itself a problem.
First, am I being too hard on myself if I mark a character as wrong because I 'hook' *wind* instead of 'curving it'? If not, how do you manage to distinguish the two?
Aargh! Please help with *wind* - Horace - 2013-05-02
I think the hook is always sharp when the 'small table' element is acting as an enclosure for some other element, as in 風,鳳,凰,佩.
If it isn't enclosing anything, or just has a single 'drop' (as in 凡), then it hooks less steeply, like the second stroke in 儿 -- as in 几,肌,飢,殳, etc.
Besides, if you put the wrong hook on a character like 風, it either takes up too much space laterally, or the insect element inside becomes hopelessly squashed.
Aargh! Please help with *wind* - KBurchfiel - 2013-05-02
Wow, that might be it! That would save me plenty of hassle. Thanks a bunch.