- 1). Learn how characters are written. Use instructional books and Internet resources, or ask a Chinese teacher in order to learn proper stroke order and the composition of Chinese characters. Regardless of which hand you use, it is important to first understand the rules and patterns of Chinese characters.
- 2). Compose characters on grid paper to learn the shape of Chinese characters. Ensure you compose properly proportioned characters, though following stroke-order rules and writing certain strokes can be difficult as a left-handed writer.
- 3). Follow the correct stroke order. Avoid changing the stroke order of characters even if you feel uncomfortable writing in this order with your left hand. Follow the rules and patterns in which characters are written to produce well-composed characters and become familiar with the rules and patterns of Chinese orthography.
- 4). Space characters properly. Avoid leaving spaces between Chinese characters as you would between words in English sentences. Raise your left hand, which may be covering the character you have just written, to ensure the characters you compose are neither too closely nor too widely spaced.
- 5). Practice trouble characters. Some characters may be uncomfortable to write naturally with the left hand because of particular radicals that are better suited to right-handed writing. Pay attention to characters calling for you to create a push stroke with your left hand when a right-hander would use a pull stroke, and vice versa.
- 6). Pay attention to your left hand as it drags over the characters you write in a sentence. Unlike right-hand writers, you may smudge characters accidentally with your left hand. Thankfully, Chinese traditionally has been written right-to-left and top-to-bottom, and you can adopt these writing styles if they help you write better characters.
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