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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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Do Chinese characters look like what they mean?

November 23, 2024 by chinesespeaking

It depends on which font/script you’re looking at and what the original meaning is. 1# Let’s say nouns. There are many types of nouns, like nouns representing …

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What is the best way to memorize Chinese characters along with their sounds in Mandarin?

August 9, 2022 by chinesespeaking

Not the best person to answer this question but since you requested to me, here’s how I memorize Mandarin pronunciation (spelling) of Chinese Characters. For …

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