Lesson 4 Ideographic and Self-explanatory Characters
I. The Ideographic Characters An ideographic character is created by combining two or more existing characters into a new character in an...
Lesson 3 Are All Hanzi Pictographs?
The answer to the title question is “not really” if we are talking about present-day hanzi, whether the simplified or the traditional...
Lesson 2 Rules of Strokes Order
I. The Rules of Strokes Order Actually there are clear rules on which stroke should come first in a character and which next, and which...
Lesson 1 What Are the Chinese Characters?
I. A First Look at the Chinese Characters Many people in the world today regard hanzi as too complicated, like “little drawings” with a...
