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S.O.D.
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Rule
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Exceptions
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Strokes go from left to right
and top to bottom
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Right-left ‘slopes’ e.g. 千(top stroke)
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When lines cross, the horizontal is usually drawn before the vertical
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Normally top horizontal comes first then main vertical and then lower horizontals
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Center strokes are first, and then the left and right strokes
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Left or right exceed two strokes each
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Outside lines are before inside, but bottom closure is last
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Open boxes e.g.区
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Vertical strokes drawn through the center are drawn last.
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Right to left diagonal lines precede left to right
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Strokes which cut through the middle of a glyph come last
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大‘big’
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