Explore the fascinating world of Chinese characters and their rich cultural significance. Learn how to write and understand these ancient symbols, and unlock a whole new level of communication.
I’m often asked about how to write in Chinese. This guide will summarize my thoughts which will help you learn how to write Chinese characters step by step!
Chinese Alphabet: There is no Chinese alphabet in the sense we understand it in the West. Chinese characters are not letters (with some exceptions), Chinese characters represent an idea, a concept or an object. While in the west each of the letters of our alphabet represents a sound that generally has no particular meaning. (...)
Learning written Chinese is a daunting task for foreigners, requiring a knowledge of several thousand characters to achieve basic literacy (although the language itself has many tens of thousands). Telling them apart and memorising them all will take the average Chinese schoolkid half a dozen years, so goodness knows how long it could take a part-time non-Chinese student.
The poster shows all 174 characters of the HSK1 test in simplified Chinese with the romanization system for Standard Chinese pinyin. #hsk #hsk1 #mandarin #poster #chinese #hanzi
Jun 3, 2020 - Two versions of handwriting worksheets included. Demo video that can be used to teach writing numbers in Chinese characters is also included.