If you look at the characters related to plants, you will notice that most of them contain the "tree" or "grass" radicals.
Coins are traditionally incorporated into the Chinese New Year dumplings with a symbolic meaning.
There are different ways to ask someone his or her name. For people who are older than us, "nin" should be used, while "ni" should be used for younger people.
If you look at the character for elephant, one might see a representation of the elephant with a long trunk, four legs and a tail. This is why Chinese is known as a "pictographic" language.
When you combine different Chinese characters, you can make different words. Let's now learn some terms for modes of transportation.
This cute introductory video helps Chinese learners learn the characters for "fu," (father) "mu," (mother) "ma," (mommy) and "ba" (daddy).
Learn in the fastest and easiest way possible how to effectively remember some characters that express movement.
Learn about the characters used to talk about time by watching this fun and thorough explanation of how to write them and how they came about.
Learn a simple, fun way to say the four directions in Chinese as well as how to remember how to write them.
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