How to write Peace and safety, year after year (Sui Sui Ping An, 岁岁平安)
Also said when something breaks at New Year: sui (year) sounds like the word for break. 4 characters, 23 strokes.
Write it in your own hand
The grey guide and the red arrow show where each stroke starts and which way it goes. What you write is kept exactly as you wrote it: nothing is corrected. Go slowly for a thick, wet stroke, quickly for a thin one.
Stroke order, character by character
Year (suì, 岁)
6 strokes
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- Vertical (shù, 竖): Top to bottom
- Vertical-turn (shù zhé, 竖折): Top to bottom, then turn right
- Vertical (shù, 竖): Top to bottom
- Left-falling (piě, 撇): Down and to the left, lifting the brush as you go
- Horizontal then left-falling (héng piě, 横撇): Left to right, then sweep down to the left
- Dot (diǎn, 点): A short press, usually down to the right
Year (suì, 岁)
6 strokes
123456
- Vertical (shù, 竖): Top to bottom
- Vertical-turn (shù zhé, 竖折): Top to bottom, then turn right
- Vertical (shù, 竖): Top to bottom
- Left-falling (piě, 撇): Down and to the left, lifting the brush as you go
- Horizontal then left-falling (héng piě, 横撇): Left to right, then sweep down to the left
- Dot (diǎn, 点): A short press, usually down to the right
Level (píng, 平)
5 strokes
12345
- Horizontal (héng, 横): Left to right, rising very slightly
- Dot (diǎn, 点): A short press, usually down to the right
- Left-falling (piě, 撇): Down and to the left, lifting the brush as you go
- Horizontal (héng, 横): Left to right, rising very slightly
- Vertical (shù, 竖): Top to bottom
Safe (ān, 安)
6 strokes
123456
- Dot (diǎn, 点): A short press, usually down to the right
- Dot (diǎn, 点): A short press, usually down to the right
- Horizontal hook (héng gōu, 横钩): Left to right, then a small hook down to the left
- Left-falling then dot (piě diǎn, 撇点): Down to the left, then press down to the right
- Left-falling (piě, 撇): Down and to the left, lifting the brush as you go
- Horizontal (héng, 横): Left to right, rising very slightly
More greetings to write
- Happy New Year (Xin Nian Kuai Le, 新年快乐)
- Wishing you prosperity (Gong Xi Fa Cai, 恭喜发财)
- May everything go as you wish (Wan Shi Ru Yi, 万事如意)
- Wishing you good health (Shen Ti Jian Kang, 身体健康)
- May your wishes come true (Xin Xiang Shi Cheng, 心想事成)
- Abundance year after year (Nian Nian You Yu, 年年有余)
- Happiness to the whole family (He Jia Xing Fu, 阖家幸福)
- Great luck and great gain (Da Ji Da Li, 大吉大利)
- The vigour of a dragon-horse (Long Ma Jing Shen, 龙马精神)
Stroke shapes and order from Make Me a Hanzi, as packaged by Hanzi Writer, used under the Arphic Public License. Stroke names checked by hand, character by character.