How to learn and memorize Chinese characters?
An important part of learning Chinese is to learn characters. Learning characters is different from learning words in other foreign...
10 things you should know before learning Chinese
1. Don't be shy Language is no different from everything else in life; you learn from your mistakes. But the act of going into the...
Why today is the best time to learn Chinese?
You are thinking about learning Chinese, but you aren't sure whether you should take the plunge? You have heard rumors of the economical...
00．身 body
身 body 在 present 曹营 Cao's place 心 heart 在 present 汉 Han This idiom was derived from a story in the novel The Three Kingdoms. It is said...
99．舌部 tongue
舌 tongue 战 fight 群 group 儒 scholars This story took place towards the end of the Eastern Han period. Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan were...
98．斤 axe
疑 suspect 邻 neighbor 盗 steal 斧 axe Once upon a time, a village man lost his axe. He suspected that his neighbor's son, Dadong, had stolen...
97．矢部 arrow
有 have 的 target 放 release 矢 arrow 有的放矢 means to shoot the arrow at the target. It is used to describe people who have a well-defined...
96．夂 arriving
夏summer 至arrive 和and 冬winter 至arrive In the Chinese lunar calendar, in addition to twelve months based on the moon, the lunar year is...
95．寸部 Chinese unit of length
尺foot 短short 寸inch 长long 尺短寸长 means sometimes a foot may be too short and an inch may to be long - or everyone has his or her strong and...
94．止 foot
望watch 梅plum 止quench (stop) 渴thirst This story takes place during the Three Kingdoms Period. Before Cao Cao became King of the Wei State...
