<blockquote>
<p>Am I missing something?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>you need to distinguish a resource is reliable, or, dubious </p>
<p>the ministry of education, taiwan  maintained a site for learning stroke order:</p>
<p><a href="https://stroke-order.learningweb.moe.edu.tw/characters.do?lang=zh_TW" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://stroke-order.learningweb.moe.edu.tw/characters.do?lang=zh_TW</a></p>
<p>爾:</p>
<p><a href="https://stroke-order.learningweb.moe.edu.tw/charactersQueryResult.do?words=%E7%88%BE&amp;lang=zh_TW&amp;csrfPreventionSalt=null" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://stroke-order.learningweb.moe.edu.tw/charactersQueryResult.do?words=爾&amp;lang=zh_TW&amp;csrfPreventionSalt=null</a></p>
<p>the provided links, the first one is, unacceptable. the second one is, unreliable.</p>
<p>have fun :)</p>

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2020-10-24T18:34:46.603Z
That's a great authoritative resource, thanks! Looks like I was right, the first 2 were just wrong. Odd that they would let something like that go.
Curiosity
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2020-10-24T14:19:47.493Z
2020-10-24T14:19:47.493Z
水巷孑蠻
<blockquote>
<p>Why are there so many different stroke orders for this word? Is there a correct one at all?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Unfortunately, there is no one possible universal stroke order dictionary.<br />
Stroke order differs:</p>
<ul>
<li>from country to country,</li>
<li>between radical, standalone and handwriting forms,</li>
</ul>
<p>It may be different in each of:</p>
<ul>
<li>Mainland China,</li>
<li>Hong Kong,</li>
<li>Taiwan,</li>
<li>Japan,</li>
<li>Korea,</li>
<li>Vietnam.</li>
</ul>
<p>In English there are differences in spelling, too, e.g.: threater vs. theatre.</p>
<p>Welcome to the real world (c)</p>

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Leonid
<p>So I looked up 爾 on tofulearn, and it gave me the most bizarre stroke order animation. You can see it here:
<a href="https://www.tofulearn.com/dictionary/chinese/%E7%88%BE" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.tofulearn.com/dictionary/chinese/%E7%88%BE</a></p>
<p>I then checked a couple other places, but the first two resources I checked gave me two other different stroke orders:
<a href="https://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/character-stroke-order.php?word=%E7%88%BE" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/character-stroke-order.php?word=%E7%88%BE</a></p>
<p>and
<a href="https://jisho.org/search/%E7%88%BE%20%23kanji" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://jisho.org/search/%E7%88%BE%20%23kanji</a></p>
<p>The last one is Japanese, so I'm not discounting the possibility that they may have slightly different rules when writing Kanji, than the Chinese do, but the last one makes the most sense out of the three and follows the general rules I learned about stroke orders (left before top and right in boxes, horizontal before vertical丨). The other two don't make as much sense.</p>
<p>Why are there so many different stroke orders for this word? Is there a correct one at all?</p>

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2020-10-24T01:06:36.057Z
The first one is definitely incorrect. The third one is correct.
joehua
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2020-10-24T08:12:59.150Z
The last one is correct. It's how I write 爾 in traditional chinese(Taiwan).
HungYu Chang
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2020-10-24T08:28:09.810Z
It's what I thought too, but then how come only the Japanese reference gives the correct one? Am I missing something?
Curiosity
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2021-09-03T09:00:23.073Z
You need to use better resources if you care about what is "correct"! If you're after traditional characters in Taiwan, use https://www.moedict.tw/, if Hong Kong, then https://www.edbchinese.hk/lexlist_en/. More here: https://www.hackingchinese.com/everything-you-need-to-learn-chinese-stroke-order/#lookup
Olle Linge
<stroke-order>
Stroke order of 爾
# Stroke order of 爾

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-10-23)

So I looked up 爾 on tofulearn, and it gave me the most bizarre stroke order animation. You can see it here:
<https://www.tofulearn.com/dictionary/chinese/%E7%88%BE>

I then checked a couple other places, but the first two resources I checked gave me two other different stroke orders:
<https://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/character-stroke-order.php?word=%E7%88%BE>

and
<https://jisho.org/search/%E7%88%BE%20%23kanji>

The last one is Japanese, so I'm not discounting the possibility that they may have slightly different rules when writing Kanji, than the Chinese do, but the last one makes the most sense out of the three and follows the general rules I learned about stroke orders (left before top and right in boxes, horizontal before vertical丨). The other two don't make as much sense.

Why are there so many different stroke orders for this word? Is there a correct one at all?

**Tags:** stroke-order

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: The first one is definitely incorrect. The third one is correct.  
> **username_2**: The last one is correct. It's how I write 爾 in traditional chinese(Taiwan).  
> **username_0**: It's what I thought too, but then how come only the Japanese reference gives the correct one? Am I missing something?  
> **username_3**: You need to use better resources if you care about what is "correct"! If you're after traditional characters in Taiwan, use https://www.moedict.tw/, if Hong Kong, then https://www.edbchinese.hk/lexlist_en/. More here: https://www.hackingchinese.com/everything-you-need-to-learn-chinese-stroke-order/#lookup  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_4 on 2020-10-24. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

> Am I missing something?

you need to distinguish a resource is reliable, or, dubious

the ministry of education, taiwan maintained a site for learning stroke order:

<https://stroke-order.learningweb.moe.edu.tw/characters.do?lang=zh_TW>

爾:

[https://stroke-order.learningweb.moe.edu.tw/charactersQueryResult.do?words=爾&lang=zh\_TW&csrfPreventionSalt=null](https://stroke-order.learningweb.moe.edu.tw/charactersQueryResult.do?words=%E7%88%BE&lang=zh_TW&csrfPreventionSalt=null)

the provided links, the first one is, unacceptable. the second one is, unreliable.

have fun :)

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: That's a great authoritative resource, thanks! Looks like I was right, the first 2 were just wrong. Odd that they would let something like that go.  

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### Answer by username_5 on 2021-09-02. Score: 0

> Why are there so many different stroke orders for this word? Is there a correct one at all?

Unfortunately, there is no one possible universal stroke order dictionary.  
Stroke order differs:

* from country to country,
* between radical, standalone and handwriting forms,

It may be different in each of:

* Mainland China,
* Hong Kong,
* Taiwan,
* Japan,
* Korea,
* Vietnam.

In English there are differences in spelling, too, e.g.: threater vs. theatre.

Welcome to the real world (c)


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