How many Chinese characters do I need to know to know Chinese?
As a language, Chinese is largely monosyllabic and doesn’t have a fixed grammar, so learning it is really quite easy — easier than English. If …
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Is there a reason why Chinese characters are written vertically?
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 …
Do the Chinese still make new characters today?
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” …
What are some of the easiest and hardest Chinese characters to write?
The easiest Chinese character would be numbers, one → “一“ two → “二” three → “三“ （No, four is not four straight lines.) the hardest …
What is the most effective way to learn Chinese characters?
Let me pour a giant bucket of cold water on this. [[ As a normal adult, you will never learn enough Chinese characters to be …
Are new Chinese characters still being invented?
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 …
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 …
How can you easily remember the differences between the Chinese characters “未 (Wèi)” and “末 (Mò)” since they look so much alike?
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 …
Why Chinese characters don’t look like what they mean?
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 …
How do Chinese people memorize thousands of Chinese characters?
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 …