Introduction to chinese characters

                              

                                    Chinese characters



  • Evolved from earlier forms of hieroglyphs
  • Starts from left to right, top to bottom
  • Chinese characters have tens of thousands but only 3,000 to 4,000 are needed in daily life
  • Chinese characters have meaning but most of them are not words,
  • All Chinese characters are monosyllable
  • Only 1200 possible syllables in modern Chinese
  • Chinese characters have different pronunciation by have one syllable

Best way to learn Chinese characters

  1. Learn to differentiate basic components
  2. Use the pictophonetic method to learn series of related characters
  3. Study easily confused characters together


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