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- 的 (de) of / ~’s (possessive particle) The first character to learn is 的 (de), often used as a possessive particle with a neutral tone. It might seem quite an odd character to begin with, but you will use this one so often, better learn it now.
- 一 (yī) one / 1 / a. 一 (yī) is an ideograph character, meaning that it is an abstract idea of the number 1. Radicals. n/a. Common Bigrams. 一个 (yī gè) a /an. 一些 (yī xiē) some / a few.
- 是 (shì) is / are / am / yes / to be’ 是 (shì) is commonly found to mean ‘is’ or ‘are’ in a Chinese sentence. It can also be used as ‘yes’. Radicals. 日 (rì) sun.
- 不 (bù) not / no. Radicals. The origins of the 不 (bù) character are that it depicts a bird flying up towards to the sky and out of sight. The horizontal stroke 一 shows that the sky is the limit, preventing the bird from going any further.
Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture. Chinese characters have a documented history spanning over three millennia, representing one of the four independent inventions of writing accepted by scholars; of these, they comprise the only writing system ...
Jan 16, 2022 · Have you ever wondered what the most common Chinese characters are? In a language of approximately 50,000 individual characters, mastering the most commonly used Chinese characters—and knowing their order of frequency—will benefit you along your path to language greatness.
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Having a deeper understanding of Chinese characters is importantfor any student of Chinese. Learning characters will help reveal the language’s logical structure as well as China's history and culture. Watch the following video to delve deeper into the pictographic and ideographic nature of Chinese characters. You’ll learn the difference between th...
Contrary to what many new students expect, learning the characters is not a particularly hard part of learning Chinese. In fact, many advanced students of Chinese say that remembering and achieving good oral comprehension of the vocal tonesassociated with Chinese characters and words is actually the hardest aspect of learning Chinese. There are a f...
There are over 200 radicals that make up Chinese characters, though only a portion of them are regularly used in simplified Mandarin today. Check out the list below to find out the 40 most common character radicals—you might find that you've encountered most of them before! Remember, because they serve as the building blocks of the written characte...
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Not only are your search results ranked by frequency of everyday usage so you get accurate results, but it includes Mandarin pronunciation guides with audio, Cantonese pronunciations guides, simplified Chinese characters, traditional Chinese characters, written Chinese stroke animations, Chinese radicals and more.
The Table of General Standard Chinese Characters ( Chinese: 通用规范汉字表; pinyin: Tōngyòng Guīfàn Hànzì Biǎo) is the current standard list of 8,105 Chinese characters published by the government of the People's Republic of China and promulgated in June 2013.
