traditional character calligraphy book

[Southernjohn]

I am looking for something online that shows traditional characters in pen-script...possibly their stroke order. But more importantly having it written in pen script. I am thinking probably a chinese site has reprinted an older book on-line. I have searched a little bit, but I am still not that comfortable googling in chinese. I am thinking there must be some book reprinted online that is essentially a pen-calligraphy book for traditional characters. ?

I don't write traditional characters very often.... some times a particularly complex character will be challenging for me to get the proportions right. The stroke order is not so much a problem. I would just like to see a nice picture of a character written.

btw... I have looked at that university site in america (sorry can't remember the name now, i think it is a californian university) they have a stroke order animations of some traditional characters. But their set is relatively small and is more for beginners learning their first chinese characters.

southernjohn

[skylee]

This is not animated but it does show the order of all strokes of each character and I think it is helpful -> 常用國字標準字體筆順手冊

Use it as you would a paper dictionary of traditional characters, i.e. first check radical then number of strokes.

For example, this shows clearly that we should write the upper middle part of 學 first ->

[Southernjohn]

thanks a lot Skylee... this is really helpful.

I encountered a little font problem.... on the radical index page... a few of the radicals are not displayed and instead there is a question mark. I fiddled around with the language settings on firefox, to no avail. Have you encountered this? I assume it has something to do with my font settings, and it is not the website displaying those question marks.

[skylee]

I know nothing about browers and fonts. I use IE and only four radicals are not displayed properly (no question marks, though, just blanks). (I am very used to these things ha ha )