Do Chinese characters look like what they mean?
Eh… no, not really. At least not anymore lol. Modern Chinese characters are not particularly effective at conveying meaning through visual representation, but ancient Chinese …
Fans of Chinese and Mandarin
Eh… no, not really. At least not anymore lol. Modern Chinese characters are not particularly effective at conveying meaning through visual representation, but ancient Chinese …
I must answer this question because the calligraphy work I’ve been recently copying is the 峄山碑,Yi Mountain Stele, which features the standard official script of …
Mandarin Chinese is the most frequently spoken Chinese language or dialect with more than 900 million native speakers. The Chinese characters are more or less …
To be honest? Because you are totally misreading the character. The word lung is, on the left, the radical 肉 meat, flesh, which is used …
Mutual intelligibility. French and English use the same alphabet, but have you ever noticed that as an English speaking person you can’t understand most things …
As pointed out in the previous answer, this Chinese character“州” in pictographic writing refers to the land in the middle of rivers, representing the basin …
红 is red. It is very distinct, you can’t mistaken it. Blood is red and one know what is red when one see red. As …
There are many reasons why English is the lingua franca today. It’s widespread around the world. The British Empire was pretty effective at spreading it …
Modern day brides in China make use of red as well as white depending on the ethnicity of the Chinese group. A hundred couples from …
The radicals 部首 are not just Mandarin Chinese, they are for all Chinese characters. They are the bases of the characters. Take, for example, the …