The Physical Feature of Ancient Radicals
Chinese writing originated from pictographs. If we track down the origins of each radical, we will find that they began as pictures of...
The Evolution of Written Structure of Radicals
Although many radicals used in modern Chinese originated in ancient China, the written forms of the modern radicals differ dramatically...
The Origin of the Radical
Originally, radicals were root characters. How did these root characters become radicals, and who invented the term “radical”? In the...
拼音练习二：千字文（部分）
天地玄黄 (tiān dì xuán huáng)，宇宙洪荒 (yǔ zhòu hóng huāng)。 日月盈昃 (rì yuè yíng zè)，辰宿列张 (chén xiù liè zhāng)。 寒来暑往 (hán lái shǔ wǎng)，秋收冬藏 (qiū...
拼音练习一：三字经（部分）
rén zhī chū xìng běn shàn xìng xiāng jìn xí xiāng yuǎn 人之初 性本善 性相近 习相远 gǒu bú jiào xìng nǎi qiān jiào zhī dào guì yǐ...
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...
Lesson 10 Chinese Syllables
Spelling Rules Rules of Syllable Separation As mentioned in Lesson 1, Chinese syllables usually consist of initial consonants and vowels....
