On the flip side…
fǎn
f- Male
-an
Bedroom or Living Room
厂 Factory (Note the slightly curved first stroke)
又 Right Hand Man

Member Comments from 2019-mid-2020
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Della Fuller
My dad, Frank, and Dr. Watson are standing in front of a conveyor belt in my sister's livingroom, investigating the murder of Joe Smith, a previous worker there. The only clue they have is a blood-stained sheet of paper lying beneath the belt, but it reveals nothing. They look at each other in frustration, stroking their beards. However, when Dr. Watson suggests that Frank look ON THE FLIP SIDE, it reads "My girlfriend Jane Doe did it." They look at each other in astonishment and bump fists. Once again they have solved the crime.
Chad Ressler
Location: Grandma's House (Living Room)
Actor: Phil Crimmins
Props: Sickle and Friend Aaron (Right Hand Man)
I'm hanging out at my Grandma's House with my friend Aaron when Phil Crimmins stops by. He says he's back in the states from China for a little while but is short on cash. He hands my friend Aaron a sickle and says he got it in Russia and that it forged in Russia in 1917 and used a model for the Hammer and Sickle in the flag of the Soviet Union. Aaron is standing there holding the sickle when Phil says he will sell it to us for $3,000 and that ON THE FLIP SIDE of the sickle Lenin himself signed it. When Aaron turns and looks on the opposite side we look and see "Made in China" .
Image credit: CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Jason Pon
The stroke direction (left to right vs right to left) seems to vary for the first, top/horizontal stroke. This character goes from right to left. The stroke for. 厚 in the previous lesson goes from left to right. Is this correct? Hopefully I don't get these confused!
Mandarin Blueprint
Yeah, sometimes the top stroke is a piě and other times it's a héng, but they're so close visually that you're not likely to get confused.
Alexander Greenwood
I certainly can't comment for every character, but so far I've noticed the top stroke seems to go left to right when the internal part of the character doesn't touch the vertically aligned left side stroke. When there is a component touching, in the case of this character, the top stroke seems to always be a right to left. At least that's the pattern i'm following for the moment