How do I write a Kanji word?
From right to left and up then down or...?
Thanks!

lol..kanji are actuallu chinese chars so u right up down then from right to left! ^^

hummm... but most of the time, the Kanji itself is written from left to right, but sometimes, you have to write the right part first, and sometimes not.
So... find a kanji dictionnary, it will shows you the basic rules and the stroke order for each kanji. :)

Kanji are classified by stroke numbers or their keys (bushu).

I think it is one of the best online kanji dictionnary. Just copy/paste the kanji you want and click on the button 検索 (reading is kensaku and it means means "lookup". the second button means "erase" and reading is torikeshi)
http://nihongo.isc.chubu.ac.jp/komori/wwka...nji_search.html

For exemple, I copy/pasted this kanji 検, the first one from kensaku :) and you got this :

1. 検(12画) (means 12 strokes in total)

ケン 点検,てんけん,inspection,examination#tenken 検定,けんてい,official approval,inspection#kentei

Then, if you click on the kanji itself, you will end on this page.
http://nihongo.isc.chubu.ac.jp/cgi-bin/kom...k.cgi?code=2401

And wouahh, there a video who shows you how to draw the kanji ! Cool isn't it ? The teacher who keep it online is very cool, and if you find some errors, you can send her an e:mail. Until now, I only found one error. It was a the total stroke number for a kanji. :)
If you can't see the japanese caracters, try to select the encoding to japanese EUC-JP and you're done !


Let me add this. I will say that nowadays, japanese (it's also true for chinese) can be writen from left to right just like english or french :) It's more and more frequent, in magazines, some newspaper and on internet of course.

lol....at samart i tink what u sayin is the storkes aagh dunno wat it called in english 筆劃! thats just writing the actual character >.<'' but i guess if u writing japanese kanji u do write from left to write... sorry my bad >.<''

Hello one of my favorite chocolate bar !!! ;)
The question was : "How do I write a Kanji word?"
So I thought she was talking about one kanji in general...
All is okay Milkyway... all is ok... Talking about you, I haven't eaten you for a while...

:clap yays..finally sum1 gnna eat me again! been ages! arr chump chump ayys gnna make sum1 chubby agen :hee
neeways havn talk to u guys for lOOnng well feels long atleast mwahah

anyways about the question it doesn really matta anymore if its a word or in general coz we've answered both :sry

i hpe i can get a new wrapping, the old one seems not so pretty anymore :gboy

Hey Samart! I´m not a girl. :angry

But thank so much for the answer.
Have a nice day!