原稿用紙. A type of writing paper that consists of square blocks arranged in vertical lines.
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What do you do if a genkoyoshi line ends with e.g. す。」?
Suppose that you're writing on genkoyoshi (原稿用紙), and you are writing a quotation, e.g.
「これはペンです。」
And let's say that each line of the genkoyoshi has 8 blocks. The first block would, I presume, be occupied by 「, followed by one block for each of…

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Ordering of writing furigana in multi-character words
I've recently started writing in a genkouyoushi notebook for practice and I've been writing furigana along with it to reinforce the reading. I was wondering how Japanese writers typically write furigana for jukugo or other multi-character words. Do…

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On 原稿用紙, when are ゛ and ゜ (ten-ten and maru) supposed to occupy a square of their own?
I was intrigued by this question: What do you do if a genkoyoshi line ends with e.g. す。」? and its answer.
I'm not any good at this 原稿用紙 but I remember being told for some types of forms (which I thought followed the same rules) that you need to put…

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What is the name of paper to train how to write kanji?
I'm learning how to write hiragana, katakana and kanji.
What is the name of paper that has little squares to write the Japanese characters?

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