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Older or more traditional pieces of writing are written right to left from top to bottom.
Nowadays though quite a lot of Chinese writing is done left to right, like in English and other Germanic languages.
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Two style are commonly used:
It can be written left to right, going from top line to bottom line (a more modern style, just like Western writing)
-OR-
It can be written top to bottom in columns, going from right to left (an older and more traditional style that is still seen quite regularly in newspapers and books).
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in the past, it was written from right to left in columns; but now it is written from left to right in rows.