Is my Hiragana understandable?


I don't wanna develop bad habits so I am asking at the beginning. Is my
hiragana handwriting understandable? It was not meant to be some ornament
artistic style but just the casual handwriting written at the same speed as
when I am writing Latin alphabet. So here it is

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bGHX3.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bGHX3.png)




All of your hiraganas are understandable.

However, the shape of 「を」 and 「い」 seem a little strange to me.




>   * Is my hiragana handwriting understandable?
>   * the casual handwriting written at the same speed as when I am writing
> Latin alphabet.
>

They are very well understandable on condition written at the considerable
speed.

To write them better, please refer to the examples shown in broccoli forest's
comment.  
The only one important point to refer to is whether the left and right gravity
balance of each letter is struck or not. broccoli forest's samples are good at
least at this point.

* * *

# EDIT

As I said in my original answer, all the characters presented by the
questioner can be understandable, and moreover I thought that each hiragana
was written relatively well for what was written at the same speed as when you
write Latin alphabet.

Knowing them, I'll tell you knacks how they look better with using
illustrations.

Before telling some knacks, I'd like to talk about the attitude when writing
Japanese letters/characters. First of all, Japanese characters, including
hiragana, are not written at such a speed as to write Latin alphabet. It is a
basic importance for you to write each letter carefully. Next, when writing
Japanese letters please try to write them look beautiful. I'm always trying to
do it myself.

### Knacks

  1. Strike a balance  
Write letters well-balanced, especially an even balance between the right and
the left of each letter is important. When you look at "や", you can see that
it is leaning to the right greatly, that is also said in another answer. I can
say there is an uneven-balance in the letter. This kind of badly-balanced
letter makes you uneasy when you look at it. I rotated it 22 degrees counter-
clockwise and put it at the corresponding place in an illustration (1) to
strike a balance. I think it looks better than that in (0). Illustration (1)
is made up of this kind of proper rotation for each letter.

  2. Put them in a line  
A given work is drawn on a grid paper, but many characters are not written in
line. The beauty of each character is also important, but neatness as a whole
is also indispensable. I think that this is not limited to writing Japanese. I
made illustration (2) by modifying the illustration (1) so that all letters
are placed in a line both vertically and horizontally. Don't you think that
illustration (2) look beautiful considerably?

  3. Write them with the same size  
Japanese letters are generally designed with the same size. Looking at the
illustration (2), the size of each letter varies greatly. Illustrated (3) was
made by enlarging/reducing each letter so that longer side of length and width
fits into a square of a certain size.

  4. Write them in square  
There is a technical term called "aspect ratio", that is the ratio of width to
height. Because Japanese is used for both vertical and horizontal writing,
each letter that makes up it is generally designed with square or aspect ratio
= 1. In this respect I think Japanese letters are a lot different from
alphabets. As I saw the illustration (3), the aspect ratio of each letter
varied considerably, so I expanded the width of so-called thin letters, while
expanding the height of fat letters, and created illustration (4).

  5. Practice makes perfect with knowing the fact  
I did various things mechanically manipulated to the original work shown in
illustration (0) and came up to illustration (4). It has improved a lot but it
is still insufficient for some letters. That is because the placement and/or
shape of the parts/elements making up each letter is quite different from the
ideal ones. They are hiragana shown in print fonts in illustration (5).  
Practice well by watching examples.  
As an example, "HGP / HGS 教科書体 _textbook style_ " quoted in illustration (5)
and equipped as standard on PC is good.

For "ひ" and "む", special explanation is necessary. Both are related to each
kanji as the basis of hiragana.  
I'm going to explain under the condition that you know each hiragana has its
original kanji from that it is made. If not, visit
[here](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/47136/is-there-any-rhyme-
or-reason-to-hiragana/47138#47138), where I also made my answer.

"ひ" in the original work in (0) is very similar to the letter shown in (5), so
this is not a problem of itself, but I think that you can write it more
beautifully if you know the kanji of its basis.  
If you look closely at the sample of "ひ" in (5), the first stroke is straight
to the right and the last stroke is written to the lower right oblique
direction. "ひ" was made from "比" of kanji. It is not from "北". Of course it is
not from the shape of a "T-shirt". The point is that "ひ" is not symmetrical.
Also, the first start position of "ひ" and the vertex of the curvature to the
left following it are in the same vertical straight line. All of these things
depend on the fact that "ひ" was made from "比".

About "む", I will explain the position of the small loop at the left side.
Looking at various examples, there are ones where the loop is located in the
middle of the left side like that in "む" written by the questioner. However, I
like it placed being in the lower left corner like that in "む" in illustration
(5). The reason is that "む" is made from "武". The small loop is actually made
from the "止" part of "武". Therefore I think that it should be in the lower
left corner.

[![enter image description
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[![enter image description
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[![enter image description
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