This paper studies on an on-line recognition of handwritten Hangeul characters using the fuzzy inference. To solve the ambiguity due to the variations of writing style by writes, these handwri-tten characters are recognized by means of the fuzzy inference on the production rule which is generated with every relative position information between strokes. In order to reduce the processing time, a subgroup which is previously classified with the number of strokes of reference characters is selected according to the number of strokes of input character, and the tolerance limit of distances between input character and reference characters of a subgroup is introduced to reduce the reference characters which is applied to the fuzzy inference. Experimental results for handwritten Hanguel charters 3990 by 10 writers show the recognition rate of $99.5{\%}$and the average processing time of 0.4sec/character.