Is exact Kanji stroke length important?


**Context:**

I am currently on a quest to learn how to hand write the 2000 most commonly
used Kanji. This requires lots of memorization, so efficiency is important.

I have come across Kanji that have strokes with little "extra tails", created
from a slightly extra-long stroke. I found that they are often referred to as
はね. Or in English, they can be called "jumps". For example:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9r7wF.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9r7wF.png)

When splitting this kanji into three separate parts:

  * the left part has two jumps on the bottom, with the left tail being slightly longer
  * the upper right part has no jumps
  * the lower right part has two jumps on the bottom, of equal length.

**Question:**

How important are the jumps?

When handwriting Kanji, does it matter if these jumps are of the correct
length? Would the Kanji still be understandable without correct jumps? Would
natives find it annoying, for example, if I didn't include the jumps at all?

I am asking because the less little things I have to memorize, the faster I
can learn the Kanji.




> These "jumps" that you brought up are not part of the kanji, they are part
> of the typeface.

_(More specifically, they may be treated like serifs - or little decorations
at the edge of certain lines)_ _(see drooze's and Sweeper's answers)_

When you are learning kanji, you should **definitely not** be copying or
referencing printed characters. You should learn from hand-written characters.
The basics of how to write kanji are not taught or learned from printed or
typeface forms.

The best online reference I know of for hand-written Japanese characters is
<https://kakijun.jp/>

  * 唱 → <https://kakijun.jp/page/1118200.html>




Notice how in some fonts, the letter "A" has little things that stick out,
too:

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

But you wouldn't write those little tails in handwriting, would you?

Same thing with 唱. I don't think I've met anyone who writes them with the
"jumps". This is how I'd write 唱:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Xy0A.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Xy0A.png)

