When writing complicated characters like ying2, I basically think of it as its smaller parts, and just follow top/bottom - left/right to put it together. Most of the more complex characters look a lot harder to right than they really are, once you learn correct stroke order. [It's a lot harder to remember the sound and meaning lol]

16:16 I call that first variation "on a sled" because whatever the main / right side is, you always put it on the zouzhidi structure like you are getting ready to drag it away ... lol ... thanks for giving the correct name! Edit: Also the #6 with the middle first, I always think of that as top down because the middle stroke is the biggest / tallest, so it gets made first ... 🤷🤷‍♀I guess whatever is easy to remember...

As a foreigner who wants to learn Chinese, I find memorizing Hanzi to be able to hand-write them by myself is so difficult, do you have any tips and tricks how to memorize Hanzi? Like the word 警察, I can read or type it, but to hand-write is so hard, one day I remember, but the other day I either forget or remember just some parts of it. So frustrating 😭