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Is there a reason why Chinese characters are written vertically?

September 3, 2025 by chinesespeaking

I am not a scholar, but on this question I am 100% certain that I am correct. First of all, I am Chinese, deeply familiar …

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Do the Chinese still make new characters today?

July 8, 2025 by chinesespeaking

As far as I know, very few. But they do exist. For example, the character “砼” refers to concrete. It consists of the parts “人” …

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What are some of the easiest and hardest Chinese characters to write?

June 9, 2025 by chinesespeaking

The easiest Chinese character would be numbers, one → “一“ two → “二” three → “三“ (No, four is not four straight lines.) the hardest …

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What is the most effective way to learn Chinese characters?

June 8, 2025 by chinesespeaking

Let me pour a giant bucket of cold water on this. [[ As a normal adult, you will never learn enough Chinese characters to be …

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Are new Chinese characters still being invented?

May 30, 2025 by chinesespeaking

Inventing new characters seems to have been still practiced quite commonly through the 20th century. For instance, the character “熵” means entropy, and was coined …

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Do Chinese characters look like what they mean?

April 8, 2025 by chinesespeaking

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 …

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How can you easily remember the differences between the Chinese characters “未 (Wèi)” and “末 (Mò)” since they look so much alike?

December 29, 2024 by chinesespeaking

My English teacher, was an American from Oregon, named Susan Grant. She was a retired lawyer who likes to hike. She taught me that when …

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Why Chinese characters don’t look like what they mean?

December 22, 2024 by chinesespeaking

Three thousand years ago, a lot of characters looked like what they mean, but over the course of three thousand years, some things are bound …

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How do Chinese people memorize thousands of Chinese characters?

December 17, 2024 by chinesespeaking

That’s another ‘China Myth’, right? But the truth is: a Chinese character is not an English/Latin letter, but it is a word, or even a …

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Why Chinese people dont use different kind of Chinese characters?

November 24, 2024 by chinesespeaking

we have used “贾湖刻符” at 9000 years ago: we have used “双墩刻符” at 7000 years ago: we have used “半坡陶符” at 6000 years ago: we …

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