[Longhanks]

I grew up in Germany and was taught handwriting there, and I get the same feeling as in seeing the relationship, but being entirely unable to read it.

This is what is taught in german schools: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schreibschrift#/media/Datei:De...

[obfuscator]

Oh wow, I had the exact image you linked photocopied and glued to the first page of my German folder. Has been ages since I saw this, thanks!

[kleiba]

Even the lower-case x like that?

[croemer]

I was taught lower case x starts at top left, does the arc to bottom left, then goes to top right, arc to bottom right, all in one stroke.

The upper case X didn't have a horizontal line in my case, otherwise it's all pretty much the same as this 1941 doc.

[netsharc]

This is useful in Maths, where that letter can be confused with the multiplication sign.

[cenamus]

Probably not, at least in my case it is just some lower left to top right line, then the crossing line starting from the top left