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き and さ when handwritten tend to have a break in the "loop" of the second
stroke.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/40Xi6.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/40Xi6.jpg)
[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xQYyO.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xQYyO.png)

But I don't seem to be able to find if it is the same for ち.

Is it ok to have separation of the second stroke like a mirror of さ? Or should
it be one single stroke through the down stroke and the loop?
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hiragana handwriting
Does the second stroke of ち have a break in it when handwritten?
I've never seen it in "separate strokes", at least for several decades of my
life as a Japanese reading handwritten documents.
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The answer and the origin to this dilemma lies in computer fonts, character
encoding space, and the limited graphics of the 80's era computers. I wish I
had the article at hand, but in this article it is explained that the reason
why sans-serif monotype variants of さ and き on computer text, and the fonts
that are used to represent those in print, are this way because of a
limitation in pixels that unfortunately made it appear as if these characters
had the vertical-and-hook stroke joined with the diagonal left-to-right swoop
stroke. Later character encoding standards allowed for enough pixel size to
accurately represent these characters in different ways, including serif
variants that have accurate stroke detail. This same font issue is the reason
why for some time, using Japanese script on computers was a kana-only venture.
This is visible in old Famicom games and similar era-appropriate applications
such as earlier command line interfaces.

It was given way to tolerance and acceptance because, in reality, in ink-and-
brush calligraphy, that's the accurate motion to draw the character elegantly.
However, both き and さ do not, in fact, have the loop connected. ち,
nonetheless, does.
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