In notebooks used by Japanese elementary school students to learn how to write letters, the “grids” gradually get smaller. You initially write only eight characters in a single column. Of course you never write horizontally when learning how to write Japanese characters for the first time.
u/foxnguyena wrote:
"Simple" Kanji like 会, I can comfortably fit them in one square. Words like 朝, 霜 (has 2 components or more), I tend to write as one and a half square width-wise (a chonky boy). This means I need more practice to be more familiar with the strokes so that I can fit them comfortably in one square, right? Or perhaps there is another kind of notebook to aid the "spacing" between the characters?
by DokugoHikken