basics of chinese characters. getting started with chinese characters ( 字 zi4) strokes ( 笔划...
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MEANING THROUGH GRAPHIC SYMBOLS
Basics of Chinese Characters
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OUTLINES
Getting started with Chinese characters ( 字 zi4)
Strokes ( 笔划 bi3hua4) Order of Strokes( 笔顺 bi3shun4) Radicals ( 部首 bu4shou3
literally: "section header")
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START FROM THE BEGINNING…
Well-established systems for more than 3000 years, still used by more than 1.3 billion people
Try to render the antiquity through a manner sticky to the young minds (90- 后 hou4)
Here is an example: “You can write with a pen…”
This is my version: “Let’s start from the very beginning…”http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=sound+of+music+do+re+mi&FORM=VIRE1#view=detail&mid=A417F9E06B1AEEE6D5CBA417F9E06B1AEEE6D5CB
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AS SIMPLE AS ONE-TWO-THREE
Learning to write is easy for …
But how can you write ten thousand this way?
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Chinese Characters For Numbers
一二三四五六七八九十百千万亿兆
Zhuan style
說文小篆(100 AD)
Bronze inscriptions
金文(1300 BC)
Oracle bone script
甲骨文(1300 BC)
Chu style on Slips/Silk
楚系簡帛(300 BC)
100
1000
10000
100mil
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STROKES ( 笔划 BI3HUA4)
It’s like the “alphabet” for Chinese words
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STROKES ( 笔划 BI3HUA4) – cont’d
A total of 27 strokes as in this table.
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ORDER OF STROKES ( 笔顺 BI3SHUN4)
The scripts are 2-d in nature. How do I know how to write the strokes in the right order?
Here are the rules:Horizontal and
then vertical
Left diagnose & then right
From top down
From left to right
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ORDER OF STROKES ( 笔顺 BI3SHUN4)
The rules (continued…)
(Well, there are still some exceptions.)
Build the wallsbefore move in
Close the doorafter all is inside
Get the entry then put it onthe plate
Work from the center to sides
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LET’S TRY IT OUT WITH SOME HARD ONES It’s time to know me by my Chinese
name
In “Simplified” characters
In “Traditional” characters
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RADICALS ( 部首 BU4SHOU3)
A Chinese radical (Chinese: 部首 ; bù4shǒu3; literally: "section header") is a graphical component of a Chinese character under which the character is traditionally listed in a Chinese dictionary. semantic indicator phonetic component
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RADICALS AS USED IN DICTIONARY
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WAYS TO FORM (NEW) CHARACTERS
There are 6 ways ( 六书 ) 象形 (pictorial) 指事 (indicative) 会意 (associative) 形声 (picto-phonetic) 假借 (borrowing) 引申 (interchange)