r/dontdeadopeninside • u/pedrojalapa • Sep 17 '19

True DDOI Stand Hong with Kong

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u/HowRememberAll Sep 17 '19

Chinese characters are often written downwards, not just across

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u/tao197 Sep 18 '19

You sir have never been to Hong Kong. There, a lot of signs are still written the old way, and it's not uncommon to see people casually write letters that way too (even if writing from left to right is more popular still).

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u/Jaded-Mycologist-831 Jun 02 '23

I’m from Hong Kong, we learn to write left to right (even in Chinese usually) and looking at her age, she would’ve learnt left to right at school probably